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HOW TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN 
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INTRODUCTORY. 

For the edification of the many friends and sym- 
pathizers in the work of the late Dr. Melville C. Keith, 
and to all others who may read "How to Take Care of a 
Wife," will say that I am a graduate of the same school 
of medicine, was in active practice with him for twenty 
years and am, therefore, thoroughly familiar with all of 
his ideas and methods; and that John E.-Ginter, co- 
worker, a close friend and admirer of Dr. Keith's for 
many years, has by his faithful and honest efforts made 
the circulation of these much needed truths possible. 



FOREWORD. 

There is sufficient evidence on every hand to justify 
the belief that education or knowledge of the subjects 
treated in "How to Take Care of a Wife" is not only 
sadly needed, but will be extremely welcome to many 
thousand sufferers. 

This knowledge must of necessity be of a truthful 
nature to command attention and respect; and further, 
it must be presented in such a manner as will be under- 
standable to all. Too much attention is given to the 
treating of symptoms, ignoring entirely the causes. The 
methods employed, "as the dosing of drugs and poisons," 
are decidedly antagonistic to the best interests of the 
body, and if continued will eventually result in doing 
such an irreparable injury to the human race as is now 
only realized and appreciated by a few. We should all 
have a thorough understanding of the laws which govern 
us ; the causes of disease and the sanative remedies there- 
for, and not be dependent on the profession. The better 
the whole subject is generally understood the broader 
will be the field of activity for good, so is behooves us 
all to inform ourselves and then throw what strength 
or influence we may possess with the truth so that the 
fetters and superstitions of the past and present may be 
forever removed. 

It has been the aim and the object of the revisers, as 
well as the earnest desire of the author, to make this 
book a most helpful adjunct to the harmony and happi- 
ness of the home. We would change the proverb that 
"All men are sinners by nature," to "All men are sinners 

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10 FOREWORD 

from ignorance/' and this applies to all classes. As a 
rule those who have enjoyed the greatest privileges and 
advantages have wandered farthest from nature. One 
of the most important functions of civilization should 
be to perfect the health of the race, but the contrary 
condition is the fact. The more civilized, educated and 
refined a people are, the more delicate and more help- 
less they become and the farther they depart from 
nature. Hence, the farther from God. He says, "My 
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, ,, and we 
know this is the condition existing today. What is 
wrong? With our millions upon millions of dollars at 
the command of colleges, seminaries, universities and 
every known advantage for education, how could this 
apply to our time? But we know it does. When in the 
history of the world was there so much disease, so many 
insane and so many surgical operations as at present; 
all brought on through ignorance of the natural laws 
and from the false teachings and practices of the regu- 
lar medical profession? The slaughters of the dark ages 
do not compare with the present state of affairs. We 
believe the crisis has been reached and this knowledge 
of the simple natural laws when generally understood 
and practiced will transfer the power from the profession 
to the masses. "Wisdom shall be increased, and knowl- 
edge shall cover the earth as the waters cover the seas." 
In handing you this book, we are giving you the key 
to the most useful knowledge that any one can possess. 
We claim nothing for literary art or science, presenting 
only plain truths, facts in simplicity, and ask charity for 
our shortcomings and for prejudices born of many years 
of practice in contact with the criminal cruelties of igno- 
rance cloaked and protected under the name of science. 



CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I The Homemaker 13 

II The Sexes 22 

III The Two Forces 28 

IV The Law of Uncleanness 35 

V The Period of Cleansing. 41 

VI Natural Pregnancy 47 

VII The Baby 50 

VIII False Theories 57 

IX Mental Inferiority 67 

X Female Disease y^> 

XI Food for Thought 84 

XII Burns 94 

XIII Vaccination 107 

XIV The Recovery of a Sick Body 112 

XV Valuable Home Remedies 124 



CHAPTER I. 

THE HOMEMAKER. 

It is an interesting subject to study why the common 
laws of life are unknown to the great majority of the 
human race, and why so many who are educated along 
the lines of practical knowledge, are so completely at sea 
when it comes to taking care of themselves and those 
dependent upon them. Human beings are often more 
ignorant about taking care of their bodies than the 
lower animals. The fact is, we do not have as much 
sickness among our domestic animals as prevails in the 
human family. 

This subject is of vital importance, and we should all 
attempt to search for the real cause. This would neces- 
sarily take us back many generations. After we have 
discovered the cause of this ignorance and helplessness, 
the next step is to apply the remedy. 

It is the belief of the writer that it is ignorance of the 
common laws that is responsible for so much of the 
trouble we have in our homes. If the majority of the 
civilized races knew the laws concerning the proper care 
of the family, we assert that they would become obedient 
to those laws. Then sickness, misery and poverty 
would at once be exterminated. 

It is generally supposed that when we come to con- 

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14 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

sider anything relative to the care of the human body, 
that what is called the "Medical Profession" would have 
all this knowledge at their fingers' ends. 

No greater mistake could be made. The medical pro- 
fession is the most densely stupid about this knowledge, 
and no other set of men on earth know less of the laws 
of natural human life except the clerical profession. 
These are the two most stupid and vicious of all classes 
in the way of real education as to caring for the body. 

These words may seem harsh and uncalled for, but 
they are true, and the bread winner who does not under- 
stand the position of these two classes (medical and 
clerical) will suffer indescribable agony while he pays 
for his ignorance by years of toil and hardship. 

First — The medical class goes to college and expends 
four or more years in acquiring a knowledge of med- 
icines — so-called, but which are not medicines, but drugs 
and poisons. At the medical college they also learn to 
consider themselves an exclusive aristocracy whose right 
it is to examine locally every man's wife or daughter 
who applies to them for medical assistance, no matter 
how simple or how complicated her case may be. They 
are taught to prescribe for no woman until she has sub- 
mitted to a local examination; also, that it is their priv- 
ilege and duty to damn the soul of any pure girl they 
may choose, being carefully warned against public 
women. Their apology for this privilege is the debt they 
owe the public, which demands that they maintain a 
perfect physical condition. They are also taught never 
to enter a sick room without first taking a drink of some 
sort of spirits as an antiseptic. Where these teachings 



THE HOMEMAKER 15 

are carried out, the doctor's condition can better be 
imagined than explained. Although they are called 
Doctors (which word means a teacher) they never teach 
anything of any practical value. While we naturally 
look to the doctor for knowledge, the doctor does not 
supply anything but a dosing out of poison which ruins 
the body. And, furthermore, they are vicious in the fact 
that they endeavor by law to poison the human race, and 
if any oppose their methods they bring down everything 
in their power to crush them. 

We, therefore, assert that the medical profession is 
stupid, ignorant and vicious; unwilling that the people 
should be possessed of sufficient knowledge for taking 
care of the body. 

The clerical class combine with the medical class 
for prestige and power. The so-called Christian Church 
has been in possession of what is called "knowledge" 
for at least thirteen hundred years and during that 
time up to date, we do not know of any of their doc- 
trines which are especially valuable for the care of 
the body; while, by their teaching that all of the Old 
Testament has been "done away with," they have in- 
creased the diseases of the human race fourfold. We 
assert, that where the (so-called) Christian Church has 
taught, we have four times as many deaths as among 
the Hebrews. All the while the "clergy" are the last 
to receive the truth and if they find one of their flock 
who is seeking after truth, there is every obstacle thrown 
in the way of its attainment. As Jesus Himself healed 
every one who came to Him, we cannot but conclude 
that the practices of these churches are largely anti- 
Christian. 



16 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

Woman, by her nature is a seeker after knowledge. 
She is the homemaker and the homekeeper. She is 
desirous of caring for her offspring. Both of the above 
classes prevent — as much as possible — the attaining of 
knowledge. 

Whatever may be said about a woman, whether she 
is or is not weaker than the man (which in a manner 
at times proves itself), it is a settled fact that no man 
or men can make a home as it is understood and de- 
scribed in the English language; a place where every- 
thing should be guided by love, affection, justice, and 
where there is perfect order, except with the aid and 
supervision of a woman. 

Taking care of this person; this homemaker, in the 
best manner should be the study of every one interested 
in the home. Theoretically there should be no such 
thing as sickness where everything is kept in perfect 
order. As a matter of fact, there is no place where 
sickness is so general or seems to be so prevalent as 
where those dwell, distressed in body and mind, who 
make up the home circle. Sickness, weakness, trouble 
and anxiety are the usual companions of the "home." 

There are at the present time more than one hundred 
and ten thousand doctors within the limits of the United 
States, a great majority of whom apply their vocation 
upon and obtain their incomes from the ignorance, 
credulities and superstitions of the masses who are ignor- 
ant of the natural laws of life and the habitual lack of 
common observances which should exist between the 
husband and wife, that are now entirely unknown. 

Usually when a man marries a woman she becomes 
his wife, his ox, his ass, or anything that is his. He 



THE HOMEMAKER 17 

does not think any more of knowing how to take care 
of her body, nor indeed does he feel the necessity of 
this knowledge half as much as if he had bought a 
good cow. The man who owns a cow or a nice horse 
is always on the lookout to preserve these animals at 
their best. When he marries, he usually takes this wife 
as a piece of goods or a chattel, who will care for her- 
self and rear her family to the end of the chapter. The 
husband expects this, and he thinks if she is not capable 
of doing it, that she is no good to him as a wife. On 
the other hand, when the woman marries she expects to 
have a comfortable home. The universal idea of woman 
is, that when she marries, she expects to be taken care 
of. She expects, of course, to go through the wifely 
duties, but in turn, if she is a true hearted woman, no 
matter how much she may know, she expects to be taken 
care of by the man to whom she intrusts her happiness ; 
and, consequently to a great degree, allows her mind 
to be yielded and swayed by his mind. 

When a man marries, he expects his wife to be 
merged into his life. Not one man in a million expects 
his wife to have any thoughts that are antagonistic to 
his. He expects her to be obedient to him in every- 
thing pertaining to this life and the next. He may not 
say this in so many words, and if asked about it in many 
instances, if he is of a just, generous and manly nature, 
will say that he is not marrying a wife to become a 
servant to him, but feels all the time and believes in 
his heart, that while she is his equal, she should not be 
antagonistic to him in the least, but should be a help- 
meet and a helpmate with all which that implies. The 
burden of obedience is on the wife. In some instances 



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she may get out of it, if she has wealth, position, edu- 
cation, society and family influence to back her up and 
keep her on her own ground. Even in these cases, with 
all the wealth, influence, family ancestors, education and 
even power, and we are speaking now not alone of 
America, but of all the so-called civilized and uncivilized 
world — we will say, that when a woman marries she 
virtually, unless she has a peculiar education (which 
few outside of the orthodox Jewess ever do have), 
places herself in complete physical and mental subjec- 
tion to the man. 

The man may indeed allow (in some few sparse in- 
stances) that she is his equal. She may be his superior 
mentally, physically and financially, but we say the 
moment she places herself in his power as a wife, she 
becomes to all intents and purposes a piece of goods 
or a chattel that belongs to him even if she is independ- 
ent and has some ideas of her own; she is ignorant of 
herself, and, being ignorant of the normal functions of 
her body, in a very short time her finer intuition and 
mentality are greatly impaired. She becomes weakened 
in her physical nature and the weakness deteriorates her 
mentality; or, in plain English, she has only one chance 
in ten thousand of retaining her mental and physical 
integrity. 

When a woman marries who is ignorant of these 
laws, she becomes lower really than a servant. She may 
not think this is true, but it is a fact. Sh€ becomes a 
servant and is simply bound to obey the master. The 
master hires for a consideration the labor of the person 
who is the servant, and the servant in return agrees to 
do such and such labor for a reasonable or unreasonable 



THE HOMEMAKER 19 

time, for the consideration of the money or its equiva- 
lent. 

There are servants who are servants for love. The 
mother is a servant for her children — for love. The 
husband may be a servant to the wife for love — but he 
rarely ever is. The love which a man knows for a 
woman before he is married is gone (as is estimated) 
in about thirty days. After he becomes familiar with 
her person and can indiscreetly and at will gratify his 
desires, she then descends into a menial; a low caste 
servant, and with forty-two years of medical practice 
as a basis for our belief, we say that the wife actually 
— after thirty days or less of married life — becomes 
mentally and physically inferior to the husband. In 
most instances they both descend in the mental scale 
by a great drop. 

We know both from personal experience and a very 
widespread observance in practice, not intentional, but 
it came just the same. 

The wife struggles to hold her place, and so may 
the husband, but no one assists or teaches them, the 
"faacilis descensus Averni" takes place before they know 
they are on the way. They do not confess it even to 
themselves, but when the medical man is called in or 
the divorce court is appealed to, we know the cause. 

Few women know how to take care of their bodies 
when they are married, and neither their spiritual nor 
medical advisers will ever tell them a word. In fact, 
we think, as we write this, in 1902, that of all the books 
that are printed, there is no book (except some previous 
feeble efforts of the writer) that instructs the woman 
how to take care of her body and retain her mental 



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and physical health. We say that no book, magazine, 
paper or essay, has ever been written for the woman 
instructing her how to take care of her body, other 
than the struggling efforts which have been put forward 
by the writer, in the last fifteen years. 

This effort, therefore, is the outcome of a desire to 
teach every woman how to take care of her body, so 
that she may never become a menial — the lower servant 
— to the caprices of a man. We desire to teach the w T ife 
how, in the very worst of all events, she can maintain 
her mental and physical integrity; how she may care 
for her home and how she may have children that are 
the best that may be had on this earth, with the material 
at her command. We desire also, to show the husband 
how he can have a loving wife — a woman in the service 
of love — the best children, and a perfectly well house- 
hold at all times; free from sickness and the incubus 
of a doctor or drug bill hanging over him. 

It is not our intention to repeat any of the primal 
laws which we think these statements ought to be based 
on, because we have those elsewhere, but we are going 
to place these laws in the English language, so that no 
man or woman can be ignorant of their physical condi- 
tion, or so the mother, at least, will know just how to 
build up her body to the best possible condition and 
have her children rise up and call her blessed. 

We are going to state in the very briefest, possible 
language, the conditions and the laws by which any 
woman can educate and take care of herself, and, by 
which any husband can take care of his wife. If any 
person is desirous of having more particulars, there are 
other works along this line by the same author, which 



THE HOMEMAKER 21 

present greater details, and, perhaps weightier argu- 
ments, and, also give better reasons than are presented 
here. 

We do not expect to have everything in this volume 
— that would be impossible — but we expect to have 
printed the basic and fundamental truths, which will 
enable every wife to keep herself intact from the com- 
mon forms of female disease, and, to have children 
without danger to herself or them, and almost without 
having pains or dangers during her life. We will have 
the law and testimony in such shape, that it will lead 
anyone to find out the rest of the law. To impress 
these ideas, these facts, on the mind in the most forcible, 
comprehensive manner, we shall not invoke anything 
from the dead languages, but, shall endeavor to have 
everything in the Anglo-Saxon tongue, to be understood 
by the truth lovers who may come into possession of 
"How to Take Care of a Wife." 



CHAPTER II. 

THE SEXES. 

The organs in a woman and the organs in a man are 
precisely alike, with the exception that some of them 
are enlarged in one and are not enlarged in the other, 
and vice versa. But so far as the general make-up of 
the body, the organs correspond between the sexes. The 
man has a breast, but it seldom or never enlarges and 
it seldom or never secretes milk. It is true that there 
are instances on record where nature has provided milk 
in the breast of man and he has nursed a child. But 
these are anomalous cases; it is not so from nature. 

It is a natural law that a woman's breasts enlarge and 
the milk glands are ready to secrete (or take in) the 
compound that we know as milk from the blood, into 
the milk spaces. 

When a woman arrives at maturity, two little ovoid 
bodies, situated one in each groin, develop. During the 
child-bearing age they send out an egg (or ovum, as 
the doctors call it) every twenty-eight days. Of course, 
as a matter of fact, it may be twenty-six days, or it may 
be eighteen days, or it may be every six weeks — we are 
stating theoretically the law, which is, that once in twen- 
ty-eight days the ovaries send out an egg, which passes 
from the ovaries to the uterus and with the passage of 
this egg comes a discharge which is called the "monthly," 

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"menses/' "periods," and a number of other names 
which may be found in different localities. This dis- 
charge is composed of the effete material that is in the 
system, and nature cleanses herself when she sends out 
this egg, or when she is about to send it out. 

A woman does not have this discharge during the time 
she is carrying the child and should not have it when 
she is nursing. But she may have it when carrying 
the child, and often does have it when she is nursing. 
This is out of the natural course of events, as it should 
be. The cleaner and stronger the body the less danger 
from these abnormal conditions. When the body is 
laden with impure materials, these impurities will be 
sent off through any outlet that comes easiest to the 
vital force. 

During the time that this discharge is passing out 
through the vagina, the woman is said to be in an un- 
clean state. We will digress right here and state that 
we have known of many women being very angry when 
they were told that during this time they were unclean. 
We are using precisely the words which are translated 
in the Bible: "unclean," "uncleanness," "impurity," and 
so on. 

Without going into more detail we will state that 
during the time of this issue, the woman is in an un- 
clean condition. Or during this time she is cleaning 
out her house or her body, or rather nature is doing this 
cleansing and should be allowed the privilege of placing 
the old and effete materials outside of the body and put- 
ting it in a clean condition again, and while the woman 
is in this unclean condition and for seven days after 
the menses have stopped, she should be allowed to rest 



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fully, free from any such demands as would prevent in 
the least the outflow of the effete materials from her 
body. It might be said or supposed that after the 
menses have stopped, this flow, or this uncleanness not 
being visible any more, would also be stopped through- 
out the body, but this is not so ; it takes seven days for 
the body to become purified after the menses have 
stopped. We will briefly state that the egg from the 
ovary, which may have left the ovary at the time of the 
first symptoms of her "coming round," may not really 
enter the uterus until the menses have stopped. 

It might be asked : How do we know that seven days 
after the flow has stopped is the exact time when the 
woman becomes "clean?" 

Of ourselves we do not know. But these laws were 
given by the Great Jehovah to care for "His peculiar 
people/' the Hebrews, and we take them to be correct. 
With sixteen years of experience we feel sure that these 
periods are right, not alone because the Bible says so 
(and this is enough for us), but because we have seen 
such blessed results in life from the obedience to these 
laws. These laws are found in their entirety in the 
eleventh and fifteenth chapters of Leviticus. 

When the menses have stopped, then this egg passes 
into the uterus or very near it, if everything is in a 
natural condition. This egg is for the purpose of being 
used by the spermatozoon as a nest, nourishment and a 
hatching place, or a place to grow for two hundred and 
eighty days. 

But never under any circumstances should the woman 
be touched, fondled, kissed or submitted to any exposure 
that will in any way retard or prevent the outflow of the 



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effete materials which are in the body for seven full 
days after the menses stop. No matter what the cause, 
if the periods are interrupted, this normal excretion be- 
comes an abnormal secretion ; hence, a septic poisoning. 
This septic poisoning is distributed over the entire body 
and the woman becomes impaired mentally, morally and 
physically. If she is allowed this time, that is, the time 
of the menses, to have this flow in good condition so 
that the body can be cleansed from all this effete mate- 
rial and the egg can pass off without any interruption, 
and, if her body is properly cleansed by a bath after- 
ward, she is then, after the seventh day, from the cessa- 
tion of the menses, in a clean condition. The woman is 
clean. 

Now this is the law. It cannot be overcome in any 
way or manner. There is no possible way by which a 
woman can keep well and have anything disturb her 
while the menses are passing off and for seven days 
after they have stopped. 

The man who does not know this when he marries, 
is unfit to take care of his wife's body ; hence, this is the 
first law and the first thing that should be taught by 
every preacher, priest, teacher and doctor, by the father 
to the son before he takes to himself a wife, and by 
all means should be taught to every girl by her mother 
before she is ever launched on the sea of matrimony. 

The writer knows that when this is brought to the 
notice of anyone w T ho has read the Bible, or who has 
given any attention to what is called "theology," that 
this will be recognized as the "Mosaic law," and that 
these parties will state and believe that all these old laws 
have "passed away" and that there should not be any 



26 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

regard whatever placed upon them. In short, all the 
priests and preachers will assert that these are old and 
obsolete laws and have been put away ; or, as they quote 
it, "Nailed to the cross" when Jesus was crucified. We 
deny this in part and totally in every way. What were 
"Nailed to the cross" were the ceremonial laws which 
were for the forgiveness and remission of sin, before 
Christ came, — sacrifices of red heifers, pigeons, etc. 

These that we are bringing forward have nothing to 
do with the remission of sin, nor with the salvation of 
the soul, they are simply laws of cleanliness and have 
everything to do with the care and preservation of the 
body. All these laws are for cleanliness and do not 
have anything to do with religion and should not be 
classed with any religious beliefs. 

The blood from a red heifer, blood of oxen, turtle 
doves, and so on, were necessary under the rites of the 
Jewish sacrifices. But all these sacrifices had nothing 
to do with keeping any part or all of the body in a clean 
condition and this is what we are now talking about. 
Keeping the body clean. Taking care of a wife. Hav- 
ing knowledge of the actual laws that govern the body ; 
govern both man and woman in every clime and in every 
phase of society on earth. 

What we desire to make plain is, the fact that the 
observance of those cleanly or unclean laws — laws at 
first given by Jehovah God to Moses for the taking care 
of the bodies of His chosen people — are the very laws 
which are at this time of the utmost importance in the 
taking care of the bodies of the wife and children. 

We assert that these laws are from the commencement 
of existence to the end of time essential to the well- 



THE SEXES 27 

being of the entire human race. If we observed these 
laws there would not be a tenth part of the sickness and 
illness that is now present on every hand. It is only the 
non-observance of these laws that produce the greatest 
wretchedness, crimes and penalties. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE TWO FORCES. 

The average man thinks that he is composed of body 
and mind. As a matter of fact, he is composed of three 
distinct and separate parts, all under one visible and 
material organization. 

Two of these parts are invisible, immaterial, intangible 
— never having been seen. One part, the body, we can 
see and feel, but the other two are unknown. We only 
know them from the work we see them perform. 

There is the body, the soul, the spirit. The spirit is 
the force that builds up the body, while the soul is that 
intelligence which inhabits the mind; or is the mind. 
Or, it may be said, is the intelligence of the mind. There 
is another division that may be made which we have 
never seen in print and which (so far as we know) has 
never been explained by any person on earth, although 
it is stated plainly enough in the Bible that a man has 
two distinct organizations inside of himself, and by the 
word "man" we include the whole human race. These 
two organizations are the body and the mind. Two 
distinct forces govern these organizations. 

We assert that there are two distinct and perfectly 
separate forces in man. The one force, which is called 
the vital force, has been transmitted from the loins of 
the father through the spermatazoa, and this sperma- 

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THE TWO FORCES 29 

tazoon with the force inside of it has built up the man 
or woman to maturity. This is also called the life power, 
the law of nature, or, the natural law.. The Bible — to 
designate this force — calls it the "spirit." 

Everything will be made plain to those who desire to 
have the truth. The laws are all stated in the Bible, 
not one is left out, so that any one can understand that 
this force which builds the body up has been transmitted 
from parent to child ever since the days of Adam. 

The law of "Evolution" as propounded by Darwin 
and heralded by Spencer, Haeckel and others, is this: 
That all animals come from a lower sphere of state, and 
that man is simply an "evoluted" being whose progenitors 
were orang-outangs, monkeys, apes, oysters, atoms, star 
dust, etc. ; that what we esteem mind is simply a part of 
matter inherent in matter and keeps on progressing to- 
wards perfection. 

To use mild and easy terms, this assertion is erroneous 
and is the result of not understanding the laws of the 
animal creation. Nothing evolutes. Nothing really 
changes only so far as the surroundings may change 
conditions. Man is just the same that he has been; a 
mouse is just the same, and in six thousand years no 
mouse has ever "evoluted" into a man or a woman. The 
force that was hidden to make up the body of the man 
goes right on making up bodies of men ; while the force 
in each oyster goes right along making up bodies of 
oysters, and, as the force does not change, so the product 
cannot change. 

We find, therefore, that the law does not change. The 
forces do not change and we have no record of one 
animal ever bringing forth another animal of a different 



30 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

species, or the living force ever losing obedience to its 
"orders" from a superior power; the Supreme Jehovah 
God who made the world and all that therein is, in the 
beginning of time. The law is perfect and is not 
changed. God has said, "My word shall not return unto 
me void." And it remains unchanged and intact. The 
u Devil" cannot change it. 

The other force is the soul, the force of the mind, or 
the intelligence. 

Now, we have a life in the soul which is one life. This 
is not an immortal life by any means, but is mortal and 
can be killed according to the teachings of Christ who 
said: "Fear him who can kill both soul and body in 
Hell." Showing that the soul can be killed as well as 
the body. And we have a life in the body. Two dis- 
tinct lives. 

One life (or the vital force) has been sent out from 
the body of the male — sent out in the spermatazoon 
which contained the intelligent life or the force which, 
when properly nourished and protected, built up another 
body like the parents. This force of life built up the 
body. The body did not build up itself, but the force 
from the male parent sent out from the loins, built up 
the body of the animal that we call man. 

There is another intelligent and different force in the 
body known as "The Intelligence" which loves, hates, 
fears, calculates and thinks, and this force that loves, 
hates and calculates does not build up the body, but 
dwells in the body, and we call this force the soul. 

Thus, we find that there are two distinct organiza- 
tions in man. One, the body ; two, the soul. And there 
are two distinct forces: one in the body called the vital 



THE TWO FORCES 31 

force, or the life force of that body; and, two, the life 
of the soul. 

Any one who may desire to have this brought out 
with more detail and absolute proof should read the Bible 
thoroughly where they will find as much as they demand 
for all the assertions made here. 

The father simply transmits the vital life. The mother 
nourishes that seed and it becomes the body, home or 
house of a living soul, which one can see in Job IV, 19. 
Job here calls the bodies "houses of clay/' that is, he 
calls the bodies houses of clay and says: "How much 
more those who dwell in houses of clay." But the soul 
evidently cannot become satisfied or happy and cannot 
live the best kind of a life unless it has the best kind of 
a body. It must have the life to expand, the best kind 
of a body to live in. 

The soul, of course, has to make the best of the body 
that it dwells in, but if we have sufficient regard for the 
soul, we will do our utmost to have the most prefect 
body for it to dwell in. Therefore, if we desire to have 
the two forces in the best condition, we have to furnish 
proper nourishment and material for them to use. The 
force that builds up the body desires the best of food, 
purest of air, clean and pure water. 

The inner force, or soul, demands love, courtesy, re- 
spect, esteem, trust and care, beside mental foods which 
may be found in books, music, flowers, painting, society, 
companionship, change of scenery, etc. It is the lack 
of these things that makes the soul unhappy. The soul 
grows if it is properly nourished. The body does the 
same. If the husband is wise he will see to it that the 
soul of his wife, as well as his own, is fed continually 



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with such food as will make the best and greatest soul 
as well as body. 

Any man who cannot xurnish the nourishment for 
these two forces, the life force and the soul force, has 
no right to enter into the state of marriage. If he finds 
himself married with an inability to nourish these two 
forces in his wife, let him at once set his mind to work 
to provide the best he can. The way (in America at 
least) is open and free. Courteous and congenial per- 
sonal companionship is first and most precious. 

The husband should not utter a word that he in turn 
would not like to have spoken to him. If his wife is 
young, tender, possibly thoughtless, it is his duty to 
educate her by the most patient teaching. If in any 
particular her education has been neglected in books, 
housewifery, etiquette or economy let him study how 
to bring about the best and most pleasant kind of an 
education for her. Love and patience sweetens the 
lessons. Scolding, quarrelling, reproaches and fault- 
finding cannot help matters. Think over all the desired 
attributes, and go to Jesus Christ with your desires. 
Or, if you think you have burdens, Jesus has already 
bidden you come to Him and given you a positive 
promise that He will cause you to have rest. (Matthew 
ii, 28.) There is no condition that you cannot have 
changed for the better. 

Providing food and raiment is not all that is required 
in the "care of a wife." She has a soul or mind that 
craves sustenance day after day, and, if you do not pro- 
vide this for her, she will look elsewhere for it. And 
in that day you will be sorry. The fabled hell will be a 
delightful retreat compared to the condition of your 



THE TWO FORCES 33 

mind when your wife commences to look outside of 
you and beyond your mind for sympathy, nourishment 
and food for her soul, unless indeed she can stay her- 
self on the word of God- — the Bible — and find food from 
the comforting words that are spirit and life. (John 
VI, 63.) 

If you cannot supply her soul with the best kind of 
nourishment, you can surely resolve that you will not 
injure her body nor diminish the material that her vital 
force demands. Your study to take care of her body 
and provide her with its necessities will bring you a 
reward that will open your eyes to the possibilities of 
the human mind for enjoyment. No husband can prop- 
erly care for his wife unless he understands the exist- 
ence of these two forces that dwell in every body. This 
is a knowledge easily gained and gives one the inside 
key to the happiest state one can enjoy on earth. 

The intelligence of the body is not the intelligence of 
the mind. There are two separate and distinct intelli- 
gences in the body; one the vital force that is building 
up the body, and the other the soul that directs the 
thoughts above the material and tries to make itself 
free from the trammels of earth. 

We state that the soul is the part that does not remain 
satisfied with bread, butter and jam, but is searching 
after some hope, some rest, some other food than that 
which we have placed before us at the breakfast table. 
It has lived before it came here and will live after this 
body has turned into dust, if w r e fulfill the conditions 
that will give us this life. If we do not, there will come 
a time in which it is stated that "they shall sleep a 
perpetual sleep and never wake," saith the Lord. 



34 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

What we would have is a perfect body, and the most 
perfect kind of a soul, which we can have if we aspire 
to and work for it. And if we make no determined 
effort for the possession of these two most desirable 
things, we will fail in having them. They are not 
floating round ready to drop into our hands or mouths, 
but, as is shown by the possession of everything else 
on earth, they only come by labor and study. We can 
have them if we wish, but they will not be forced up- 
on us. 

Dancing, card or wine parties are not conducive to 
domestic happiness. Certain conditions of society may 
seem to demand such wastes of time, but there is an 
error committed when time is squandered in any gath- 
ering where one of the forces does not obtain satis- 
faction and proper nourishment. 

Time is more profitably expended in walking out for 
the exercise, or the reading aloud of some interesting 
book. Find out what is in the soul of your wife and 
interest the soul, if you desire happiness to come in and 
dwell with you. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE LAW OF UNCLEANNESS. 

If you have read the twelfth and fifteenth chapters 
of Leviticus, you have obtained the actual law laid 
down by Moses and presumably (the writer believes 
every word of it) from the mind of God. 

There are no explanations in those chapters of the 
law as it is given. 

This chapter will be devoted to the elucidations of the 
reasons why the body is called "unclean'' during the 
time of menstruation and for seven full days afterward. 
We shall be brief in summing this up, so that any per- 
son may grasp it in five minutes and will then know 
more than all the doctors, priests, dignitaries and uni- 
versities teach in regard to taking care of the body. We 
say to you that this is the basis of all knowledge con- 
cerning the body. 

There are people, who having some knowledge of the 
Bible, are ready to explain that there is nothing in it 
and that these old laws have passed away, as well as 
making other statements along the same line ; while, as 
a matter of fact, wherever these laws have been even 
partially carried out, there the people have happy homes 
and strong robust children; on the other hand, where 
they have not known of these laws, or where they do not 
keep them or pay any attention to them, there we have 

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36 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

the most gross barbarism in regard to the body and the 
most darkened intellects. In our estimation, if anything 
has raised one race above another, it is the observance 
of these laws in regard to the sexual relations. 

Before you read it over we wish it understood that 
there is no medical school which accepts these conclu- 
sions ; no medical school teaches the pupils, students or 
readers of the scheme which the writer has designated 
as "Protoplasmy ;" there is actually no one who has 
placed the following facts together so as to make a 
harmonious law for the taking care of the body. 

Furthermore, the writer is of the opinion and be- 
lieves that only those persons who have asked God for 
knowledge, are the ones who will have or be permitted 
to enjoy this knowledge and keep themselves and those 
dependent upon- them in the best condition without fear 
of doctor or drug stores. In short, it is our belief that 
we are now in the age where 

"The wise shall understand. 
The wicked shall not understand." 

As fast as the world accepts these laws and puts them 
into practice, so fast will we have an increase in the 
advanced conditions of all classes of the human race. 

There are no laws pertaining to cleanliness from any 
other source which are of any value whatever. 

We say, when you get through reading this chapter, 
which will take from three to five minutes, you will 
have a better education and will know absolutely how to 
take care of the human body in a better way than all 
the universities of the civilized world ever have taught, 



LAW OP UNCLEANNESS 37 

and to simplify and emphasize this so that it will make 
a lasting impression, we shall paragraph each fact sep- 
arately. 

1. It is estimated that there are twenty-five billions 
of red blood corpuscles in the human body of a person 
who weighs one hundred and fifty pounds. 

2. It is asserted that these corpuscles come from or 
are made from the white blood corpuscles which have 
condensed on the outside wall. 

3. Under the influence of the vital force these blood 
corpuscles do everything in the body. 

4. They eat, drink or absorb — which is the same 
thing — and pass off the effete and worn out materials. 

5. They, these corpuscles, or atoms of the blood, 
carry nourishment; they are scavengers — toilers, repair- 
ers, suppliers — to the whole human system. 

6. If they have the best kind of nourishment these 
corpuscles will produce the best kind of a body. 

7. If they are not allowed the best kind of nourish- 
ment they produce the best they can under the circum- 
stances. 

8. All conditions that we call disease are caused by 
the want of nutrition or proper nourishment, a lack of 
fresh air, soft w T ater, or on account of improper habits, 
which in turn affects these blood corpuscles, makes them 
weak, small, unable to perform their natural alloted tasks, 
and from these conditions we have what is called a dis- 
eased body. The only exception that can arise is where the 
body has been injured by outside forces. 

9. In a diseased body we always find that there are 
obstructions, and if we know how to rid it of these 



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"obstructions" we shall soon have a sound body and a 
sound mind. 

10. Every twenty-eight days, during the child-bear- 
ing age, the body of the female is passing off an issue, 
"menstrual discharge ;" and while this is passing and 
for seven days after it has passed off and out of the 
body, the "vital force" is cleaning out the house (or 
body) where the soul dwells. 

ii. While these particles are being cast out of the 
body, we have what is called a state of uncleanness, or 
cleansing process. 

12. When the woman is not allowed to have these 
corpuscles cleaned every twenty-eight days a portion of 
this effete material is retained in the system and the 
successive returns of these obstructions through the 
veins into the liver, heart and other organs by the vital 
force, is the basis of a great majority of all the liver, 
kidney, uterine, lung and skin difficulties. 

13. Parasites of various kinds, worms, bugs, or any- 
thing which may live on the skin or in the intestines, 
will produce an obstruction to the vital force, thus pre- 
venting these corpuscles from acting in the natural way 
and eventually produce obstructions in the arterial, 
venous, lymphatic and nervous systems and it is of small 
consequence what they are called, because naming the 
condition does not change the cause. 

Doctors have eight hundred and thirty names for dif- 
ferent diseases or conditions, and thus they mystify and 
puzzle the poor soul already faint and sick. But the 
cause of all diseases is an "obstruction" in some portion 
of the body and the disease is named by the doctors 
according to the location where the obstruction mani- 



LAW OF UNCLEANNESS 39 

fests itself. The prime cause of the disease is from the 
obstruction itself. 

14. When these corpuscles are obstructed so as to 
impair the natural functions of the body, there comes a 
time when the brain is not properly nourished. 

15. When the brain is not nourished by healthy cor- 
puscles, the person becomes mentally inferior or de- 
graded from what he or she was before the obstructions 
were present. 

This statement should interest every husband who 
loves his wife. While she is sick, she is liable to be 
mentally weakened and requires more care and mind 
nourishment than before she was sick or clogged up by 
these obstructions. During the time of this sickness or 
weakness, the husband who desires to care for his wife 
should not worry her with any of his troubles or bur- 
dens. He must be man enough to carry his own burdens 
without placing another feather on her weakened mind 
and obstructed body. 

16. Anything that prevents the corpuscles from prop- 
erly cleansing themselves, proves an obstruction to the 
circulation. 

Vitiated air ; hard water, mineral baking powders ; 
inhalations of sewer gas; excesses of starch, spices, 
coffee, tea, alcoholic drinks; lack of proper bathing and 
too tight clothing are among the causes of obstructions 
in the body, which are preliminary to conditions called 
disease. 

17. The woman who is not allowed to cleanse her- 
self during the period of menstruation, becomes phy- 
sically obstructed or diseased, and it will be only a 
question of time when she becomes mentally inferior or 



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degraded from her former clean condition. The more 
doctoring and drugging she does, the sooner she is 
mentally weakened. s 

With these propositions in the mind and the conse- 
quent facts which arise out of them, there is no man 
or woman on earth who may not know how to keep 
their bodies in the best condition for a long life and a 
contented mind. 

When it is understood that we are dependent on the 
condition of the corpuscles of the blood under all cir- 
cumstances, then we can readily see that if we keep 
these corpuscles pure and well nourished, we will have 
the best body that it is possible to build. By attention 
to the laws which govern these corpuscles we can have 
the vital force do its very best for us. 

We shall get over the superstitious and false idea that 
"the liver (or any other organ) acts/' when as a matter 
of fact, the liver (or any other organ) never does any 
acting whatever, but the vital force is all the force that 
acts in the body — and through the body — when we un- 
derstand that the force demands to have proper nourish- 
ment and care to bring our bodies into the best condi- 
tion, then we shall discard the use of all drugs and 
poisons; minerals and unclean foods, and begin to take 
care of the body by taking care of the corpuscles of 
blood which are used and acted upon by the vital force. 
The living intelligent force that has built up the "house 
of clay" that you — the soul — is dwelling in. 

The vital force builds up and preserves the body. 

The mentality — or the intelligence — the mind or soul 
dwells inside of the body. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE PERIOD OF CLEANSING. 

During the time of the menses and for seven days 
after they have ceased this egg is unclean if the law has 
not been observed. This egg is unclean because it has 
been tainted or has absorbed some of the materials 
which should have passed off as effete and worn-out 
matter. If the law is kept there will be no unclean egg, 
for in the normal state this egg or ovum is not cast off 
by the ovary until the cleansing process is completed. 
It is only the forcing of the expulsion of the immature 
ovum that causes such a condition as an unclean con- 
ception or extra uterine gestation. If, during this time 
of uncleanness, conception takes place, it is evident that 
no matter how good condition the spermatazoa may be 
in, they will come in contact with an unclean egg. When 
that unclean egg holds them fast and nourishes them it 
is evident that the child will be unclean. If the child 
is unclean, the mother will carry an unclean child for 
two hundred and eighty days and absorb this unclean- 
ness all through her body and have an unclean child at 
the expiration of the stated time, then she will nurse 
this unclean child for nine months longer, and the child 
will always be unclean. 

Coming right on you suddenly, this knowledge may 
be too great for the mind to grasp at once. 

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When you give an animal too highly concentrated 
food, the animal grows sick. Cannot digest the food. 

Fearing this knowledge may be too highly concentrated 
for you, we give you some "roughness" with it. 

When this egg comes in contact with the menses, it 
takes in, or becomes soaked with this fluid from the 
various parts of the body and this fluid taints or cor- 
rupts the ovum or egg if it is forced to come out at the 
time or directly after the menses come on. This egg 
takes in some of the fluid and is not as clean as it should 
be. This tainted egg will catch the spermatozoon and 
we have the body of the child made from the unclean 
egg. So, in this case we will have an unclean child. 
Unclean because the egg was unclean; unclean starting 
points make an unclean child. 

After these periods have passed, we then have free 
way for the spermatozoon to catch the fresh and free 
egg or ovum and we will have a "clean child," and an 
all right baby to come to the house. And it remains 
clean all its life, provided it is nurtured in the feaf of 
the Lord. 

These laws of uncleanness do not apply to the woman 
alone, but they are for the man also. 

Leviticus XV, 2 : "When any man hath an issue out 
of his flesh, because of his issue, he is unclean." Read 
the whole chapter and consider that these laws were for 
the best conditions of the bodies of God's chosen people. 
Then ask, if by any consideration or juggling of words 
we can conceive how, when or why, these laws were 
ever "done away." We tell you that these cleanly laws 
are in force today, not because there is any religion about 
them (we do not think there is), but because they are 



THE PERIOD OF CLEANSING 43 

laws which affect and govern the natural laws of our 
being. During this time nature is cleansing out the 
blood, the impurities are being removed from the body 
and all the avenues are filled with these unclean or im- 
pure particles. 

If you read chapters XII and XV you will find the 
law in relation to child birth. 

When the wife has been delivered of a child, the 
Mosaic law teaches that she should not be "touched" 
or have any intercourse until eighty days had elapsed 
in the case of the birth of a girl baby, and not for forty 
days afterward in case the child has been a boy. Why? 
Because during this time the body is undergoing a 
cleansing process which must not be interfered with if 
you value the health and life of your wife and baby. 

It takes thirty years for a man to come to maturity, 
and if this is a fact, it should take four times thirty, or 
one hundred and twenty years for the life to have been 
lived out. Whoever lives to the age of one hundred and 
twenty years and who is there who can say they are 
sure that all their children are born at a clean time, or, 
are clean children? 

If w 7 e understand the Scriptures, this is one of the 
reasons why a child is called a "transgressor from the 
womb." In this condition it is no wonder that the 
mother feels badly, — that she is down hearted and dis- 
couraged — and has a little demon for a baby instead of 
having an angel. The child is unclean and it feels badly 
because the body is not in harmony with the soul. The 
mother could become clean by observing the laws, but 
she usually does not, and this mental degradation re- 
mains with her and the husband looks at her with 



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surprise that she has changed from the bright cherry 
cheeked girl of twenty years ago, to become a hag, 
faded, and repulsive rather than attractive to him. 

He looks at her — not with the eyes of love and af- 
fection, but with the eyes of superiority, as if he was 
superior and she had grown to be inferior. 

While the fact is, that his position, his stupidity, his 
ignorance — even though he seeks through that ignorance 
to excuse himself, saying: "I was not to blame I did 
not know any better/' It is ignorance just the same — 
his lack of intellectual training — even though he had 
four university degrees — was the cause of having a little 
devil for a child instead of having an intellectual, im- 
proved reproduction of himself and his ancestors. 

This chapter does not require a great deal of thought 
before you get the substance, and if you are clever 
enough to place it in some niche of your brain where 
it cannot mould, turn sour, ferment nor fly away you 
will be very happy. 

The wife who has this knowledge may rest assured 
that if she will obey these laws, she will have a clean 
child and her body will always be clean and she will 
never become a hag, even if she lives until she is one 
hundred and twenty years old, and even if she has six 
or seven children. No mother is likely to have more 
than six or seven CLEAN children, while she may have 
thirty-five UNCLEAN children; and if you want to 
know how these unclean children do, take a run over 
to Portugal or the Western Islands and see how they 
look with their thirty-five children, all unclean and all 
mentally inferior. We have been to these islands and 
have seen the people. If you ever have seen their 



THE PERIOD OF CLEANSING 45 

stature, eyes, habits and personality you know what the 
meaning of an unclean child is. 

Do not misunderstand that this condition is confined 
to any locality, sect or denomination. We American and 
English people to a great extent, are equally or even 
more guilty and just as unclean as these poor creatures 
with their thirty and thirty-five children in. one family. 
All alike so far as uncleanness and unhappiness goes. 
Do you think the Epworth League, the Endeavor So- 
city, Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen, Knights 
of Tom, Dick and Harry, know any more? Not a par- 
ticle. They all practice the habits of- uncleanness and 
then wonder why it is that God has afflicted their wives 
and daughters with "female disease." 

When a man having a wife thinks that he can control 
that body at any time — but does not understand the laws 
of cleanliness so that he can occupy a separate room 
while this period is on and until it is passed for seven 
full days — according to the Mosaic law — or rather ac- 
cording to the laws which were given to Moses from 
God for the preservation of the human race in the best 
of condition — we assert that if the husband does not un- 
derstand or disregards this law, he may rest assured that 
he will have to call in a medical priest and have some 
advice to ease his mind concerning the conditions which 
have been brought on by his indiscretions. 

And this medical priest is not going to help her either. 
The medical man believes in the fetiche of giving poisons 
to overcome some other poison. This is folly. The 
uncleanness should be thrown ofif. Should be cleaned 
out from the body of this unfortunate and ignorant 
woman. And, while she is being cleansed, she should 



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be allowed to rest undisturbed. The man should sleep 
alone. If he does not know enough to do this, he is 
ignorant of the first laws of cleanliness and rejects the 
very foundation of his future happiness. There is no 
possible excuse for this folly and stupidity. 

We venture to say that if you have this chapter in 
your head you know more than all the professors in 
Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and more than all the 
doctors in the United States, England, France and 
Spain ; for, if they have had this knowledge it never got 
away from them. Nobody ever found it out. They 
never told anybody. The world don't know anything 
about it. If you have this knowledge and know how to 
take care of the wife, or, if you are a wife and know 
enough to have clean children you are most fortunate 
and among the happiest of women. 



CHAPTER VI. 

NATURAL PREGNANCY. 

No one has been smart enough as yet to tell precisely 
where a conception may take place. We have ova- 
rian pregnancy, or the spermatozoon might catch the egg 
in the fallopian tube, and we have the "tubal pregnancy ;" 
it may catch it in the uterus, and we have what is called 
"natural pregnancy/' We believe that if the laws of 
cleanliness are strictly adhered to, that no abnormal 
pregnancy can take place, such as ovarian, tubal or extra 
uterine gestation. 

There are some husbands who desire intercourse and 
who do not w r ant any children; not willing to have any 
increase in their families. Such men are fools. They 
spill the seed and in a longer or shorter time they are 
punished by paralysis or brain rotting and they depart 
this life "unwept, unhonored and unsung." 

When the wife does not desire any children, the hus- 
band, if he reflects on the consequences that are sure 
to result from the practices indulged in where this state 
of mind exists, will keep right away from her. Wife 
or no wife, do not touch her. 

It is better to cut your throat and get out of the 
w r orld than to bring an unhappy child into existence. 
Don't do it. Let her entirely alone. 

The writer believes that if the husband is in good 

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condition when conception takes place, he is capable of 
fertilizing the egg in any place where the spermatozoon 
may catch or come in contact with this egg f allowing 
the child to grow and become nourished for two hun- 
dred and eighty days. But if he is not in good condi- 
tion, we have entirely different results. We have all 
sort of pregnancies and all kinds of monstrosities, be- 
cause the father or mother did not understand this law 
of natural and clean development, which they could have 
understood if they had read the Bible, and had done 
any thinking for themselves instead of depending on 
false teachings. 

And we wish to say, that if any two people have had a 
child conceived in cleanliness, there will be nothing the 
matter with the child and the mother will not have a 
bad time when it is born. We are sure of this. It is 
disobedience to these laws which make the wife's 
troubles, cancers, tumors and all the rest of the "female 
diseases" so common everywhere in the civilized world. 

We do not think there are any female diseases where 
the wife keeps herself clean in her person during these 
and at other times. 

The uncleanness which is in the wife has reflected 
itself on the husband, and although he may recover to a 
certain extent from his degradation, the wife who has 
suffered for five hundred and sixty days from this un- 
cleanness will not soon get over her loss of life power. 
She will not recover from her contamination with effete, 
impure blood corpuscles; and, although we have no 
means of accurately judging of the time it would take 
for her to recover her clean body, we state that in our 



NATURAL PREGNANCY 49 

opinion it would be a year or more, but it would be 
better if she was let alone for two years after she has 
had an unclean child; in the meantime she should be 
kindly treated, have pure air, soft or distilled water and 
proper food. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE BABY. 

No expectant mother should make the grave mistake 
of thinking because of her condition, that she must spend 
her time in idleness ; on the contrary, for the best in- 
terests of herself as well as the coming baby, she should 
be what she expects her child to be, ambitious, indus- 
trious, cheerful, active and of contented mind. 

There is an erroneous idea prevalent that during this 
time a servant is necessary to relieve the wife of all 
manual labor, thus depriving her of the privilege of 
this very important exercise which is so essential to the 
well-being of both wife and baby. It is not expected 
that she do any heavy lifting, reaching or straining, but 
the duties of the ordinary household are the pregnant 
wife's blessing. The wife whose circumstances will not 
permit her to take care of her own room, prepare her 
own food and perform the general home duties is most 
unfortunate. We do not mean to say that she should 
attempt to do her own washing; that is if the family is 
large and the work necessarily heavy, or that it would 
not be advisable to have help on sweeping days, or for 
general cleaning, but that she may be permitted to enjoy 
the privilege of the regular household affairs. We wish 
to impress upon the minds of all concerned that every 
pregnant wife should perform regularly as much health- 

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ful, manual labor as she is capable of; her physical 
health and strength being taken into consideration. 
Right here we wish to emphasize the importance of regu- 
lar exercise, for, this is the only means by which the 
natural functions of the body can be kept in a normal 
condition, and the muscles strong and healthy, without 
the muscles in this condition an easy delivery is im- 
possible. 

Besides this, the open air exercise, such as long walks 
in the cool of the morning or evening, or the getting out 
and working in the garden with the flowers, or with 
the chickens, etc. (if she is so fortunate as to have ac- 
cess to any of these healthful pastimes), ought not to 
be overlooked. The walking must not be neglected as 
there is nothing else that will give the needed strength 
to the muscles of the abdomen and thighs, and a daily 
walk of five miles should be the rule regardless of the 
weather. 

In emphasizing the importance of the physical con- 
ditions, we must not lose sight of the even more impor- 
tant mental conditions. 

If you would have a bright, intelligent child, the 
mother must be possessed of or furnished with the same 
grade of mental food or nourishment that you wish 
developed in your child. The mother who meets her 
physical privileges urjer protest, deprives herself to a 
great extent of the benefits she would otherwise derive 
from her manual labors, and depresses and biases the 
mentality and broader and better judgment of her child, 
as well as robbing it of a rightful pre-natal training 
which would otherwise insure a happy, cheerful, sys- 



52 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

tematic and industrious disposition; and later a law- 
loving, law-abiding citizen to our nation. 

During pregnancy the wife should occupy a separate 
room with all that this implies. No female of the lower 
order of animals answers the demands of the male (in 
fact, there are no demands made upon her) during the 
time she is carrying her young. The same rule should 
hold good in the human race and the husband, if he is 
wise and will give the matter just a little thought will 
control himself, and allow 7 her to nourish his child in 
the best possible condition without depriving that child 
of the nourishment which it should have from the 
mother. When he co-habits he does this very thing — 
saps the nourishment that should go to the child. We 
do not believe that if husband and wife lived a perfect 
sexual life previous to this conception that there would 
be any danger of undue demands by the husband during 
this time. 

Do not allow yourself to become rattled because some 
fussy hen in Chicago has w r ritten a book to prove that 
you can be castered (Karezzed) and ''have visions" and 
all this sort of rot. You know better. Keep your seed 
inside of your body and have it reabsorbed to go and 
build up your brain. You need it and you know that 
you do. Fight all night and struggle all day to keep all 
impure thoughts out of your mind, and after your 
struggle has ended in a victory you will find that your 
eye is bright and that even as your bank showing is 
light at this time, it will come to be better and you know 
where it is coming from. Your step will become elastic 
and every time you think of that little growing baby, 
you will find that your feet will come off the ground 



THE BABY 53 

with a snap that will surprise you. And, when this hand 
is under the sod you will have a child that will rise 
up and do you some good, and sing songs that will 
run through you as water goes over the Falls — because 
it has to. Yes, and no matter who hates you and what 
the fools say about you while you are at home coddling 
the wife who is going to bring you the baby, you will 
be happier and richer than those who are out with the 
boys. Take care of your wife and baby and you will 
be rewarded with affection and care when you are un- 
able to work for a living. Take care of them while you 
have the chance. The time will come when you will not 
have an opportunity to care for them nor to think for 
them. They will be able to think for themselves, and 
if you have made no attempt to improve yourself before 
that time comes, you will then find that it is too late. 
They will do their own thinking without any of your 
aid. Now is the time to do your thinking, and impress 
their minds for good. 

Who ever heard from any teacher, doctor or priest, 
that there could be any difference in children on account 
of the time of conception? 

Or, what doctor ever taught his patients how to avoid 
what are called "female diseases?" Or, how to have a 
good, sound child that would be sure to live, without 
illness or weakness? 

Again, it is well-known by every one that we have 
these weaknesses of the women and children — we have 
medical colleges and medical men in abundance, all 
professing to be anxious for scientific facts and yet there 
is not a work in any language nor any book outside the 
Bible that ever gave an inkling of these laws, or the why 



54 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

or wherefore of the weaknesses, illnesses, early deaths 
and premature decay of the human race. Not a line from 
any medical school. Not a sentence from any so-called 
Christian church — to light the young couple on their 
way through life. 

Now, let the reader consider another phase of this 
baby question in connection with taking care of the wife. 
The use of tobacco. 

When a man smokes or chews tobacco, he destroys his 
nervous system. Very slowly, of course, but not less 
surely, the facts being as well attested as the multiplica- 
tion table. 

The nerves are not alone the parts of the body de- 
stroyed by the use of tobacco, but the habit seems to 
show first in the nerves of the tobacco user. The heart 
is one of the organs that suffers — apparently — as quickly 
as any other, but the fact that the skin soon grows 
browner shows that the entire system is affected detri- 
mentally from the use of the weed. 

As his whole body suffers, of course his procreative 
powers are weakened as well. 

In this condition, he approaches the wife, no matter 
how good or pure the wife, any contact whatever with 
a husband who uses tobacco affects detrimentally her 
bodily health. 

But when she has conceived, and take into her body 
one of the tobacco soaked seed and nourished it for 
two hundred and eighty days, she (or her body) has 
been obliged to furnish more nutriment for the tobacco 
weakened spermatozoon than if she had taken in a per- 
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We mean this word sober exactly as it is written. The 
tobacco user is drunken with tobacco. 

During all the time she is carrying this tobacco soaked 
child, her body is being impregnated by this tobacco. 
Second-hand, it is true, but not less effective in poison- 
ing her body, and when she is through carrying the 
child, and nursing it — if it lives — she has been irrepara- 
bly injured by contact with the tobacco poisoned germ 
from the tobacco soaked father. 

The child from the loins of a tobacco user is never 
as strong, as healthy, or as long lived as it would have 
been if the parent had never imbibed tobacco. The 
father has not allowed the child as good a body as it 
would have had if he had never used tobacco and 
poisoned his body. When the parent uses a poison and 
begets a child, the child is robbed of its rightful pre- 
natal inheritance; the best body possible. The parent 
using tobacco has been a robber. He has robbed his 
child of what it had a right to have — a most perfect 
body. 

With this fact before us, we can see that every hus- 
band who has been instrumental in bringing a child into 
the world, while he is a user of tobacco, has stolen 
from the child that he is father of. 

The wife may not know it, but she has been swindled 
and duped — her body has been injured by contact with 
this tobacco using husband. And, it is not too much to 
assert that every man using tobacco is a thief and a 
swindler when he enters into the married state. 

Therefore, it is plain to be seen, when we consider 
these facts, that the tobacco user robs and poisons the 
mother and her child. If we declare that every tobacco 



56 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

user is a thief to his children, a robber and swindler to 
his wife, and a wilful defrauder to the state and nation, 
we are simply telling the truth. 

If we go a step farther and consider the wretched and 
pitiable conditions of the insane — the idiotic — epileptics, 
suicides and feeble-minded, to say nothing of the burden 
to the state and nation, we find that the tobacco user is 
a curse and a burden maker for the world to carry. 
No matter his position or his profession, he is an enemy 
to the human race, both mentally and physically, and as 
such must be an adomination to God. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

FALSE THEORIES. 

There are many books published ; one that is called the 
'Theory of Zugassant," another by Alice Stockholm, 
M. D., of Chicago, called "Karezza," and others that go 
under the head of "Magnetation," which have been sent 
over the country during the last thirty years. The basis 
of these assertions, beliefs and theories is that a husband 
and wife may have sexual desire and gratify the same 
by preverting the natural law and yet remain continent. 

There is not one of these theories true, even in the 
very least. The only proper way for a husband and 
wife to do is to thoroughly eradicate every particle of 
passion by preventing the blood from coming into the 
genital organs, or else to have complete and perfect 
sexual intercourse. It is not necessary to ask where 
these ideas first came from. Essentially the idea is 
French. Large families were and are an abomination 
to that nation and anything that would enable them to 
gratify their desires and not increase the family was to 
be welcomed. Hence, the theories which have been 
•published in America. 

The author believes that these false theories have had 
more effect in depopulating New England of her 
American citizens than any one cause. Instead of over- 
coming and living down the desire — making it a servant 

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— obedient to a man's (or woman's) will — they advised 
indulgence, but denied and prevented what should have 
been the legitimate result — children. 

Not one of these publications advocate the conquering 
of the sexual passion — in fact, some of them never men- 
tion this part of the subject, and if the writer is correct, 
this is one of the first victories which a young person 
should gain — a complete mastery over the sexual de- 
sires. The mind, the soul, should govern the body. 

This may be accomplished by food, such as nuts and 
fruits, with a liberal supply of vegetables, excluding 
oysters, lobsters, the starchy potato, the hog, chicken, 
coffee, tea, alcohols and tobacco. We say if these stimu- 
lants and starchy excesses are excluded and the proper 
foods taken into the body, with ordinary care, cleanli- 
ness and continence will be the result. The man and 
woman may both overcome the desire and become per- 
fectly pure and chaste in their lives, even though they 
are married to each other. And when they are in such 
condition, it is certain that there is not any mental un- 
happiness or any mental disagreement between them. 

It is a far better way to conquer those desires and 
have them under immediate control than to gratify them 
in any manner, only at a proper time and when ready to 
have children. 

Consider a moment the consequences of this gratifica- 
tion : 

i. In both there is a substance lost. It is passed out 
of the system. 

2. This substance is taken or is deposited from the 
blood, and is the richest part of the blood. 



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3. When this substance is expelled or lost in excessive 
quantity, the blood is impoverished. 

4. In case of impoverishment of blood we have weak- 
ness of body and brain. Any illness is far more serious 
in every case where the blood has been depleted or weak- 
ened in any way. 

But in case of "Magnetation," "Karezza," or in any 
half-way or imperfect sexual intercourse, or where an 
excessive congestion of the sexual organs and the parts 
remain congested for a while, the substance (semen in 
the male — mucous in the female) is destroyed (or the 
life is driven off) and this material remains in the sys- 
tem, to be passed over the body as dead material. 

In perfect sexual intercourse every particle of semen 
in the male and mucous in the female is passed off and 
out of the body. In all kinds of imperfect sexual inter- 
course, we are positive that only a part is sent out and a 
part is left inside to rot or become dead matter. 

Even in the conditions of long continued excitement, 
the body and brain are both weakened. 

Fantasy, imagination, desire, where the sexual desires 
are aroused by any means and the blood is kept in a 
congested state, is antagonistic and destructive to the 
best interests of the body. 

The husband and wife should have no thought but for 
each other, because there is never any happiness for 
either where they take another one outside, EVEN 
MENTALLY, as a sexual partner. 

There is no condition in which Magnetation, Karezza 
or the Theory of Zugassant does not burn up and de- 
stroy the corpuscles of the blood, which are the toilers 
and nourishers of all the body. 



60 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

The bringing of the person to a point of white sexual 
heat burns up and destroys the natural forces of the 
body, and renders these corpuscles weak and debilitated, 
and sooner or later the penalty for this is paralysis, can- 
cer or insanity. We have not space enough in this book 
to detail all the reasons why, but we state, with the con- 
viction that is born of forty years of experience, that we 
have never seen anyone who has practiced Magnetation, 
Karezza, or to fancy that they could carry out the Theory 
of Zuggassant, that was not mentally and physically 
weakened; and often death is the direct result of these 
practices. 

The heat of passion destroys the blood corpuscles, and 
as a matter of fact, it is better to have perfect sexual 
intercourse than to try to have all this passion without 
producing children. And the sexual heat in a woman 
without having the compliment of the male sperm on 
the outside of the uterus is simply to burn those organs 
up. 

We have lived many years and have seen many per- 
sons who thought they were hardy enough to tamper 
with these practices and have the stamina to hold up 
under the strain. Not a soul of them ever did it. We 
knew T lots of them who have told the writer that he did 
not know anything and that they were in perfect health. 
Every one of them that we have known who have been 
flying near this kind of fire is down in his or her grave 
before half their days were lived out on earth. We have 
thought over all their deluded theories and vicious prac- 
tices and saw them from day to day sink lower and 
lower into the mire, but we do not know of a single one 
who has tried these experiments who has not sooner 



FALSE THEORIES 61 

or later paid the penalty by forfeiting his or her life. 
To see the fruits of your labors while on earth, as a 
result of right living and thinking, is a privilege and 
blessing that at present falls to the lot of too few. 

One of the stupid things that has killed thousands of 
families, broken up more homes and brought more 
women under the surgeon's knife than anything else on 
earth, is this idea that "the size of the family can be 
regulated. " 

There is just one way to regulate the size of the fam- 
ily, and this is total abstinence. This is the only feasible 
way, and every other is a species of robbery to both 
parties which has caused more misery, suffering and 
death than can be thought of. The entire nation of 
France is thirteen millions short of the number of chil- 
dren they should have, if they had acted honest toward 
themselves. 

When you think you can prevent a normal function 
and deny that there is any such fact as natural law, you 
are on the road to perdition, bodily and mentally, just 
as fast as you can go. 

If the wife is too weak to bear children, let her alone 
until she is able to have them. Build her body up. Do 
not rob her of her life with a picture of love. 

Do not rob her body with the idea that she is any- 
thing but a tender, lovable plant. She will leave you one 
of these days, and you can avoid any regrets by taking 
the best care of her now. 

Consider again, when old age comes, if it would not 
be a pleasant thing to have children to take care of you 
and return some of the love which you have bestowed 
on them while they were young. And think, if you can, 



62 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

of the happiness that is missed when you destroy these 
little lives by practicing some of the acts which the great 
Jehovah has said that He abominably hates. 

Put on your thinking cap and look forward twenty- 
five years and see where you and your wife will be at 
that time, and look at the picture of a childless old age. 

If you can give yourself to this consideration, then 
think if it is not worth while to have all those children 
clean and in the very best condition in this life. Give 
up the folly of Zugassant and Karezza, and become an 
American citizen not afraid of a lovely family. 

There is plenty to do — plenty of room for five hun- 
dred times as many children as we have now. And there 
are thousands of opportunities for every honest child 
that comes among us. Do not listen to the lies of the 
Malthus and the old world, no God speculations. Serve 
the Master and have no fear for the future of your per- 
fect children. It is only the half-witted that the world 
has too many of. We are very short of perfect men and 
women. 

Some weeks since we stood by the bedside of a lady in 
the prime of life, where the blood settled under her fin- 
ger-nails — the staring eye — the death damp on the fore- 
Tiead and the convulsive twitching of the fingers all 
showed the rapid approach of death. 

Around her was her only daughter, yet in her teens; 
a son, about eight, and one possibly five years of age. 
With great control the husband was able to repress his 
sobs. The scene was heart-breaking. We can never 
forget it. There had been no actual crime intended, but 
their conduct had been at variance with the laws which 
God has placed before us, which are called natural laws, 



FALSE THEORIES 63 

and her death was the result of disobeying these laws. 
Within twenty-four hours of this writing a friend of the 
writer lay sick upon a bed, unconscious, purple under 
the finger-nails and on the limbs, with the purple spots 
on the body showing the unmistakable approach of 
death. 

At this bedside the writer made a conditional promise 
that if this life would be restored he would write the 
warnings of nature; or the laws of God in plain words 
in order that the truth of the Scriptures should be ful- 
filled and "knowledge should be increased. " (Daniel 
xii, 4.) In obedience to that conditional promise these 
pages are sent to you. The knowledge of a remedy, or 
compound was sent and the patient became better in a 
few hours. While we write this (the next day) the pur- 
ple spots are partly gone and food has been taken. The 
delirium has subsided and every look is for the better. 

It is very evident, from the limited knowledge we pos- 
sess, that other forces on earth, in the air about us and 
around us are constantly at work, busy in their appointed 
lines, and that these forces are under one supreme force, 
which supervises and manages all the others in perfect 
harmony. 

Our first act then should be to place ourselves in har- 
mony with this one great force. There can be no discord 
save through our own ignorance and disobedience. 

I find that there is a force in my body which builds 
up and keeps it in the best of order, if I keep that body 
in harmony with what I know to be the laws of life. If 
through ignorance or carelessness these laws are dis- 
obeyed, my body suffers the penalty and my mind is per- 
plexed. 



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The Bible is filled with instructions as to how I may 
bring myself in perfect harmony with this one supervis- 
ing force. In it I find many things stated that I know 
to be the fact, and all statements, as far as I can under- 
stand them, are reasonable, just, truthful and beneficial 
to all of the human race. 

One sentence and assertion stands prominently forth 
in the book, spoken first by the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 
xxix, 13) : "Their fear toward me is taught by the pre- 
cept of men." (Matthew xv, 9) "In vain do they wor- 
ship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of 
men." These are the words of Christ. 

Thinking these assertions over carefully I find that I 
cannot worship God or Christ — the Son of God in an 
acceptable manner unless I discard: 

a. The "commandments of men." 

b. The "precepts of men." 

c. "Commandments and doctrines of men." — (Colos- 
sians 11, 18-22.) 

d. Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn 
from the truth. (Titus 1, 14.) 

In order to serve God, I must believe all the Scriptures 
and serve Him acceptably. 

If I believe that man has a soul that will "never die," 
when God says the soul that sinneth "shall die" (Ezekiel 
xviii, 4), I am in vain trying to worship God. 

If I teach that there is a "purgatory" when there is 
no such place spoken of in the Bible, I am "in vain" 
worshiping God. 

If I teach or believe that "infants can be baptized" 
when the Bible teaches that repentance should come be- 
fore the baptism ("Repent and be baptized"), and this 



FALSE THEORIES Go 

cannot apply to an infant, then I am "in vain" endeavor- 
ing to worship God. 

So on through "going to heaven" when I die, when the 
contrary doctrine is taught in Revelations v, 10, and 
elsewhere ; knowing everything when I am dead, when 
the Bible teaches "The dead know not anything," Ec- 
clesiastes iv, 5-10; or when I pray to saints or angels 
or the "queen of heaven." All these are "in vain," and 
I must get right with the word of God and believe in 
that word before I can serve Him acceptably. In short, 
I need not look to have any prayers answered nor need 
I expect to be in harmony with God as long as I do not 
believe, or know, or care what God teaches me in His 
Book. If I will not hunt after His word and believe in 
His word, "in vain" am I trying to be in harmony with 
God. 

I must obey all His laws and all the teachings in His 
word in order that I may be in harmony with Him. 

The desire that is in our minds, at least in the most 
of our minds, is to know how to do right and to have 
the favor of God; to know how to gain that favor and 
become sure that we have it from day to day. 

If we understand the laws of God and can ask and re- 
ceive the things that we have need of, directly from the 
hand of God, why should we distress ourselves about the 
future or the present ? This is what we are endeavoring 
to make plain, so that we may not have to walk in dark- 
ness any more. That we may have understanding of all 
our conditions and be at peace with God and with our- 
selves. 

If there is any way by which we can accomplish all 
of these desires, that is the way we should follow. 



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If we have this way given us, it must be in the Bible. 
If we do not have it, what an unjust condition we are 
living in. But we have this instruction marked out for 
us, by the Lord Jesus ; He came to tell us, and when He 
departed He left all these ways marked out in the plain- 
est manner for us to follow. 



CHAPTER IX. 

MENTAL INFERIORITY. 

According to St. Paul, a woman, being the weaker 
vessel, has to keep her head covered. This set of ideas 
has been handed down until we find in some churches — 
Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal — that they do not al- 
low a woman to do any talking where the priest is. So 
far as their churches go, we do not think the woman 
loses anything by keeping silent, but when this idea en- 
ters into a family, that family is the next door to death. 
If we know anything about the family relations, we as- 
sert that the wife should be just as free in the household 
and free in mind with the husband as he himself. She 
is a partner and she is just as much interested in the 
welfare of the house as he is. She is the mother of the 
children, and she knows those children must be educated, 
and she should have just as much say about the finances 
and about everything connected with the house as he 
should. 

I have seen many homes where the husband con- 
ducted his business and the wife paid attention to the 
household duties, and there was a division of funds 
from what she could earn from chickens and eggs; he 
having his accounts all separate. This, of course, is bet- 
ter than not having any say at all, but it is not my idea 
of life where there is love and trust. 

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The man oftentimes is not to blame for looking on 
the woman as inferior, but if he is married to a woman 
who is his equal and who was a comrade before they 
were married, and whose bright face was a pleasure to 
him, there is no reason why she should not be a full 
partner and understand all his financial schemes as well 
as his work. It makes life a great deal sweeter and 
pleasanter for the husband to have his wife understand 
everything and sympathize with his ideas and criticise 
them may be, if needed, and not feel he is all alone and 
there is no one to help or care what he does or how he 
does it. 

When a man has married a bright-faced girl, and he 
comes in some morning telling her of some scheme, and 
instead of listening to him she sits back in her chair and 
pouts and cries, she is paying no attention to anything 
said, but is thinking about herself, her aches, her pains. 
After the husband has gone to the wife of his bosom 
with some scheme and has been repulsed by her tears or 
her pouts, he will shut himself up and look upon her as 
inferior. From that moment there is a veil between 
them and little by little the breach grows wider, until 
he looks upon her as a necessary evil to be supported, 
and he tells her nothing of his business and has no con- 
fidence with her whatever. 

On the other hand, very few husbands understand the 
wives they marry. Only one in a thousand ever finds the 
comrade in his wife that his mind or soul craves for, or 
should crave for. He makes excuses for his own short- 
comings, but he seldom or never makes any excuse for 
her conditions, even though he may not say anything to 



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her. Mentally he finds fault with her and approves of 
himself or excuses himself. 

The slightest suspicion is looked upon as a fact, and 
many a husband never knows of his wife's faithfulness 
and her devoted love, until he is on his death bed, or 
consigned to the penitentiary. 

Of course, there are unfaithful wives, but frequently 
the husband drives the wife to acts of unfaithfulness by 
his neglect and lack of confidence in her ; she should be 
a helpmeet and a helpmate. Anything she lacks in 
grace, beauty or education should be thought of before 
marriage. After marriage, education commences along 
the particular line the husband's vocation lies. 

If he is a minister, he should interest her in his work 
and take her with him on his visits ; in his studies she 
should be his comrade and his helper. Every line of 
truth he learns can be imparted to her. On the other 
hand, all her troubles should be smoothed over and he 
should let his parishioners know that he is one with the 
wife of his bosom. He should be a father, a priest, a 
provider and comforter, teacher and a comrade for both 
wife and children. 

If he raises stock for a livelihood, he should interest 
her in the various breeds he is raising, and the money 
value of same when they come into market. 

In short, no matter what the profession of the husband, 
he should make his wife a comrade, a companion and an 
interested party to his business — their natural success 
and comfort. In all these particulars there is no help so 
great as their being one in the belief in the Bible, the 
truths of God. 

If she is sick let the husband kneel by her bedside and 



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ask Christ for her. If she is well, let them both beseech 
Christ to care for them and their family. 

Now, we assert that the reason the wife so frequently 
becomes inferior is because she is kept in an unclean 
condition. She is just as capable of rising and being 
the husband's equal at all times after as before marriage. 
Her mental state is dependent on her physical well being, 
and nothing so soon conduces to a wife's inferiority as 
not allowing her to become cleansed in body during the 
time of her menstruation. And nothing breaks her down 
so fast as to be compelled to gratify her husband's de- 
mands during pregnancy. It degrades her mentally and 
physically and destroys the child as well. The hard 
times and labors, the weakness of the uterus and a thou- 
sand other conditions come because of this worse than 
folly. . 

We say, and we know exactly what we are saying, 
that when a wife becomes pregnant, the husband should 
not touch her until that child is born and weaned, and the 
wife who does not know enough to control these condi- 
tions during this time is not capable of taking care of 
her own body. There is no hardship about this. When 
a husband thinks the wife is a creature who is made for 
his convenience he is a fool or a brute. It is far better 
for the wife to sleep alone during the entire time she 
in carrying the child. She will have a much easier time 
when she has her baby, and the baby will be perfect in 
body and sound in mind. 

We know it. Nothing takes away from the brain and 
nervous system of the child so fast and so surely as 
sexual intercourse while the wife is pregnant. 

Consider a moment how absurd it would seem to re- 



MENTAL INFERIORITY 71 

pcatedly attempt to breed a mare that was already with 
foal. Ask yourself about other domestic animals at the 
time of gestation. The wife — in her body — is an ani- 
mal. Take care of her. Do not degrade her. Do not 
humble her. Do not misuse her body, which you surely 
do when you force her to serve you while she is preg- 
nant. 

Besides making the child inferior, the loss of nervous 
material to the wife, who is forced to any demands dur- 
ing the time of gestation, makes her actually inferior to 
what she would have been if allowed to carry the child 
without molestation and hindrance. 

Consider farther than the present. If the mother 
dreads the approach of the father, while she is carrying 
the baby, the child will have the same dread when it 
grows to maturity. There is a great secret unveiled in 
this consideration. If the mother loves and does not 
dread the approach of the father, the child will love the 
father when it is growing and is grown up. 

Consider your conditions in five, ten or twenty-five 
years and w 7 e are sure you will forego the few moments' 
gratification, both for your own and wife's benefit. And 
surely if you can increase the beauty, strength or wis- 
dom of the child that will call you "father/' you will not 
hasten to force yourself upon your wife. The child can- 
not now talk to you ; but the time is surely coming when 
that child will talk, and, if twenty years from now, 
it rises up and says that it hates your very presence, you 
will have to study backward to see what is the cause of 
this unnatural hatred. Your pleading of ignorance will 
not change the law nor the penalties of a broken law. 

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surely reproduced in the child that will be on the stage 
with great effect twenty-five years hence. Both will 
marvelously change during that time and then is when 
you need them. Consider these conditions and let your 
conscience and your Lord guide your decisions. In the 
years to come you will sing songs of praise to yourself 
because you did not force your presence on the wife that 
carried your baby. 



CHAPTER X. 

FEMALE DISEASE. 

It is thought by a great many women that because they 
are women they are entitled to have a certain number of 
diseases all to themselves, simply on account of their 
sex. Other women have these diseases and why should 
they not have them? It is a common fact in trade among 
a certain class of physicians to assert that a "woman and 
her woes" are inseparable. We know that if the wife 
lives right and her husband treats her with consideration 
(both obedient to nature's laws), that she would be his 
equal at any time, mentally, and almost all of the time, 
physically. She will be a helpmate and a helpmeet, 
ready at all times with her bright face and sweet breath 
and her words of wisdom to help him out of many a dif- 
ficulty. She should not have any woes. 

A man who has such a wife — one that he can con- 
sult with at any time, or go to and ask her advise about 
his business, whether he is keeping store, buying real 
estate or launching on some new venture — is a man that 
is fortunate, and you can tell him wherever you meet him 
by his clear eyes and contented face. The man who 
quarrels with his wife and has a row with her every 
time he enters the house, will, very shortly, look aged, 
wrinkled and haggard. 

There is nothing that will destroy a man's mentality 

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74 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

as fast as a continual quarrel and association with a per- 
son whose mentality is antagonistic to his. 

Following these ideas, we claim that the obstructions 
which come on the wife from her quarreling, from her 
uncleanness, from her lack of purifying her body and 
impurity in the wedded life, are the causes of her ovarian, 
uterine and kidney complaints, nervousness, stomach 
troubles and all the whole train of evils, which come un- 
der the head of "woman and her woes." 

It is true she may have a condition as whites, or a dis- 
charge because of eating starch in excess, as potatoes, 
fine flour or baker's bread, and it is also true that where 
a woman has been brought up on hard water and that 
water has been excessively limy, that she will not have 
a constitution as pure and clean as if she had soft water 
during her life. Hard water clogs the kidneys and 
brings too much lime into the system, and this, together 
with the excess of starch causes the whites — and may do 
so even in a young girl, and also cause painful menstrua- 
tion and ever so many other troubles ; and again, the use 
of pork, coffee, tea, potatoes and tomatoes will produce 
many cases of weakness in both man and woman that are 
not usually attributed to the food. It is also a fact that 
a diet of pork, coffee and potatoes, with hard water, 
will produce many kinds of diseases, including cancer, 
paralysis and insanity. A man who cannot provide his 
wife proper food to eat and a separate bed to sleep in — 
especially when she is menstruating or pregnant, is a 
man who ought not to have a wife. Mistreating the wife 
during pregnancy robs the child and it will not be as 
good mentally or physically as if she had been properly 
treated. When you hear of cancers of the uterus or 



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ovarian tumors, you may rest assured there has been a 
cause for it, and the cause has been uncleanness, wrong 
diet, hard water and a lack of ventilation. These are the 
causes, and they should be removed before we may ex- 
pect that a recovery can take place. And the person 
who goes to a doctor expecting a little medicine to undo 
all these evils, labors under a great misapprehension. 

Ignorance is a very soft name for it. Stupidity 
comes nearer. The man who thinks he can keep a wife 
well on such a diet comes very near being an idiot. As 
a general rule the majority of men do not know any 
more about taking care of a woman than a mud fence 
knows about an eclipse of the moon. 

There never will be any female disease where the 
woman is taken care of and where she has proper diet. 
Pork, potatoes, coffee, tea, tomatoes, beer and baker's 
bread do not constitute proper food for a civilized being. 

During the time that the woman is unclean, she should 
not make bread or do any kind of work that will in any 
way retard the process of the excretion of effete mate- 
rials from the blood corpuscles, or transmit her unclean- 
ness to others by coming into direct contact with foods. 
In short, if a man will seek this knowledge, he will find 
that with a little care he may help a woman a great 
deal at a very small cost, and he will be rewarded for this 
care with a lovely wife as a partner — a comrade — and 
some one who will be a friend to him as long as he is on 
earth, and should he die by any accident, she will not run 
away and swear that she does not want to be buried 
beside him for fear he will turn over and curse her, as 
we have heard of a widow saying after her husband was 
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There are some things which a husband should know 
about his wife. Her body is in a manner different from 
his own, inasmuch as the vital force has provided ways of 
purification that are for nothing else, and this method of 
purification begins usually at the ages of thirteen to 
eighteen, and terminates at forty to fifty-five. Anywhere 
between these two ages her body — if left to natural con- 
ditions — will purify itself, if the food, water and habits 
are correct. 

As long as a person uses hard water, man or woman, 
that passes the age of thirty, they will have an excess of 
extraneous materials which are held in solution in hard 
water, and these particles being strained out will settle 
in the kidneys, lungs, liver, uterus and pancreas, thus 
forming obstructions; and by obstructions we mean im- 
pediments which cause at least five hundred and fifty of 
the diseases that afflict the human race. 

We say, and we assert it deliberately, that hard water 
causes five hundred and fifty diseases which afflict the 
human race, and two hundred and fifty more are caused 
by tea, coffee, pork and potatoes. 

To get rid of these obstructions, there are many reme- 
dies which can be used with great safety at a very small 
cost and are efficacious. 

In order to make this very concise and practical, we 
will place these remedies in paragraphs. If the husband 
will follow these directions, taking any single remedy, 
or any two of these remedies, and placing them together 
— for they are compatible with one another — he will have 
excellent results in the restoring of his wife's body to 
complete health. But we caution you at all times against 
cascarets, rypans, fig syrup, or any other physic what- 



FEMALE DISEASE 77 

ever for the purpose of removing any state of constipa- 
tion, biliousness or any other difficulty. Use injections 
to the bowels as long as constipated and eat fruit and 
nuts enough to bring the bowels into a good state. 

If weak, have her drink a tea of German chamomile 
blossoms. 

If she has a lung trouble, she should take the tip ends 
of the spruce flowers, put them into cold water and soak 
them. Put a double handful into a quart and drink this 
during the day. 

For a cough, give a decoction of elecampane root, one 
ounce boiled in a quart of water ten minutes, sweeten it 
palatable with honey. 

If she has the whites, use the special mixture of 
chamomile, peppermint, ginger and wild cherry bark, 
of each one ounce, and thirty grains of capsicum; mix 
good, make an infusion by taking one even teaspoonful 
to a cup of boiling water, steeping twenty minutes; 
strain and sweeten with loaf sugar and drink four cup- 
fuls a day. 

If she has pain in the back, use bugle-weed, a table- 
spoonful heaping in a pint of boiling water, steep half 
an hour and drink this during the day. If she is very 
bad, take twice as much, or three times as much. This 
is also an elegant remedy for all troubles of the heart. 

If she is down-hearted, make a little tea of one-half 
teaspoonful of black cohosh, and she should drink this 
strained and sweetened, three times a day. 

For pains in the bowels, use smartweed tea. 

For indigestion, make a tea of peppermint and drink 
after eating. 

For sleeplessness, make a tea of catnip and hops and 



78 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

take a warm bath on the arms and above the knees, and 
then wash the arms and limbs in cold water afterward. 

If there is headache, make a decoction of Culver's root, 
one ounce in a pint of cold water boiled ten minutes ; take 
a tablespoonful of this every hour, or every half hour, 
until the headache is over. If she is sallow, this is also 
an elegant remedy, good also for dark circles under the 
eyes. Should only be taken one or two days in a week. 

For pains across the shoulders, use the wintergreen 
made into a tea like the chamomile. 

For faintness, drink sage tea; do not make this too 
strong, and cream may be allowed, but never milk. 

For pains during menstruation, take the corrective 
powder, which can be made of poplar, goldenseal, wild 
yam and cayenne, equal parts. 

If the woman has a rough face or rough skin, add an- 
other part of balmony and another part of goldenseal, 
and take as much after eating as will lie on the point of 
a pen-knife. 

That there are diseases peculiar to women indicates 
that some general cause peculiar to women is at the base 
of these conditions called disease. The peculiar condi- 
tions of disease may be divided into : 
(i) Itching of the vulva. 

(2) Leucorrhea or "whites." 

(3) Anteversion of the uterus. 

(4) Retroversion of the uterus. 

(5) Painful menstruation. 

(6) Tardy, scanty or excessive menstruation. 

(7) Stoppage or suppression of the menses. 

(8) Cancer of breast, ovary or of uterus. 

(9) Ovarian tumors. 



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(10) Uterine tumors. 

(11) Hydatids, polype or other abnormal growths. 

(12) Prolapsis uteri, or falling of the womb. 

(13) Laceration of the perineum. 

(14) Laceration of the os uteri, or a tear in the mouth 
of the uterus. 

Before, during or after the period of menstruation 
there may arise an itching sensation all over the labia, 
extending into the vagina and across the perineum into 
the rectum, which is sufficient to drive one crazy with a 
desire to scratch the parts. 

The causes may be from one of three conditions, or 
from a combination of all three. 

a. Uncleanness from lack of care of the person (im- 
perfect sexual commerce and self-abuse forming a very 
potent factor). 

b. The presence of insects, parasites or germs. 

c. Parasites in the blood. 

In case of itching from the presence of insects, a wash 
of any antiseptic will be of immediate benefit. 

First — Boil butternut bark (fresh bark the best), a 
pound in two quarts of soft water, until there is only a 
pint ; strain and use either warm or cold as may be most 
agreeable. 

Secondly — Make a wash of one part carbolic acid, six 
parts glycerine, six parts of boiled soft water ; mix thor- 
oughly and bottle, closing tightly, and before using 
shake it good and apply cold with the finger as often as 
the itching appears. This should be applied with the 
finger and washed off in warm water — a quart of this 
water should contain a heaping tablespoonful of soda. 

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80 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

ingredient should be used very cautiously and applied 
with the finger, rubbing only on the parts affected by the 
parasites. Carbolic acid is poisonous and destructive in 
its nature, and if used too continuously, induces paralysis 
by killing the nerves and death has been known to fol- 
low its use. 

But if used two or three times a day with the finger 
for the purpose of destroying the growth, or fungi, or 
parasites, it will be found safe and effective. 

Thirdly — To ten grains of permanganate of potash 
add six ounces of boiled soft or distilled water. Use in 
same manner as the carbolic acid wash ; this can be made 
stronger or weaker to suit the different textures of skin 
by adding more or less of the potash to the same amount 
of water. 

Fourth — One part oil of ceda^ to six parts pure olive 
or cotton seed oil — well mixed — will be found a pleasant 
application to adults where the skin is toughened from 
any cause; this should be applied carefully, as it will 
smart intensely if allowed to go into the vagina. 

Fifth — One pint of hot water in which an ounce of 
borax has been dissolved will sometimes relieve the most 
intense itching. 

Sixth — One tablespoonful of strong ammonia to three- 
fourths pint of warm water makes an effective wash. 

The time for a man to be married is when he is fully 
thirty years of age. The woman can bear children when 
she is twenty-three, but we think she is better at twenty- 
five or twenty-eight. 

It is a fact that children born of fathers who are under 
thirty, and mothers under twenty-three, are not as strong 
mentally or physically as the children born of parents 



FEMALE DISEASE 81 

who arc at a mature age. The father cannot be mature 
tinder thirty. The mother should never be under twenty- 
three, and better if she is twenty-five. Even at that age 
her best children, if she is properly cared for, will be born 
after she is fully thirty years of age. 

If you are acquainted with these facts you can govern 
yourself accordingly. If you are led away by passion, 
by any persuasion to marry before you are mature, you 
will suffer in your own body and suffer far more in the 
early decay of your children. 

If you desire to have proof of this, examine the chil- 
dren around you, inquire of the ages of the parents when 
these children were born, make a note of the facts and 
you can see that we are correct in these statements. 

Besides this, no person should be married who has 
not wholly learned to repress and control every particle 
of sexual desire. Much of this control is in the will and 
in keeping the imagination from running riot in your 
brain. Much more is in having the food free from stim- 
ulating articles. No one can be virtuous or continent 
while they drink coffee, tea, wine, beer or eat pork, 
oysters, clams, potatoes and pastry. 

Any one of these articles is sufficient to bring on in- 
continence, and from this condition to evil imagination 
is only a step very short and very sure. 

It would seem impossible that God would not have 
given us some rule to go by, and we find that these rules 
were once laid down for the human race, and may be 
found in the Old Testament. Leviticus is filled with laws 
for the "keeping clean" of the body. We also find that 
these laws were "a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ" 



82 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

(Galatians, 3:29.) Once we have Christ we do not need 
any other laws to go by. 

But Christ did not do away with being honest and vir- 
tuous ; neither did He do away with the washing of our 
hands. We are required to keep clean. Therefore there 
is a reason in all the cleanly laws and they are for our 
guidance, and certain penalties render it imperative these 
laws should be kept. 

What is the penalty for eating swine flesh? Cancer, 
scrofula, humors, rheumatism, insanity and rickets, de- 
formities and early deaths in the children. It is true that 
many years may elapse before these penalties come upon 
you or your children, but they are certain, and when 
once they do come upon you, you may pray to God, but 
He will not release you nor your children until that pen- 
alty has been fully paid. Now is the time for you. to 
know of this fact. You may think you can live, exist 
and rear children to be as good, as wise, as strong and 
as intellectual as other children; so you can, if the par- 
ents of the other children eat the hog and live unclean, 
unnatural lives; but you never can have your children 
as smart or as well as other children whose parents have 
observed the laws. The penalty goes down to your 
grandchildren. Every unclean thing eaten or handled 
has a penalty attached to it. You may not see it in 
twenty-four hours, but twenty-four years will show it, 
and you can be made twenty- four hundred times as sorry 
as ever you dreamed of. 

You may pass out and away from this stage of action 
and not feel the penalty very acutely yourself, but your 
children and grandchildren may be in a position where 



FEMALE DISEASE 83 

they will know on whom to place the blame for the dis- 
ease which they have inherited. 

It is well understood that when any person has taken 
food into the stomach, there should be a period of re- 
pose or tranquility during which the food in the stomach 
is mixed with the gastric juice and the fluid from the 
peptic glands, and is thus converted into digested food 
or into a disintegrated mass, which will more readily be 
assimilated by the lacteals or the small mouths of the 
intestinal canal. 

When this food is not digested from any cause, then 
it remains as it was when it entered into the stomach, 
undigested. 

This mass of undigested food passes along into the 
intestines. It is assimilated as it is without enough of 
the digestive ferments having been added to it. It is un- 
digested and is passed as undigested material into the 
intestines and from there into the blood, thence into the 
organs of the body ; finally the liver or the spleen stores 
up this undigested material in its recesses. Sometimes 
the liver desires to cleanse itself and sends this old ma- 
terial out into the system. It lands in some unused place, 
some place where there has been an injury, or some 
waste place, and there that old and undigested material 
will form a bunch. 

This bunch will form a tumor. 

The doctor will say it is benign, if it does not putrefy. 
If it putrefies, then it becomes a cancer and we will have, 
if there is much of this old material in the system, a most 
malignant cancer, which poisons the system in a very 
short time. 



CHAPTER XI. 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT. 

There are many men, who after they are married and 
have taken possession of all there is of a woman, make 
up their minds there is something about her they don't 
like. This is one of the most singular occurrences that 
transpires on this earth. I do not think anything ever 
changes the mind of a husband concerning his wife as 
quickly or as surely as the breaking of these laws of 
cleanliness, unless it would be infidelity, which is also 
invariably brought about by the same cause. 

On the other hand, if the laws have been kept, we feel 
sure that there never will be any difficulty in the married 
life and the parties will be satisfied with each other. 
Always will remain satisfied. 

I am convinced that the great majority of the unhappy 
lives among the married are caused by excessive and im- 
perfect intercourse arising from the fear or hatred of 
having children. If no more children are desired, there 
should not be any sexual commerce, and of course, none 
of the fondling which leads up to it. There comes a 
hatred instead of love, and a bitterness of spirit instead 
of patience in every case of imperfect or incomplete 
sexual intercourse. The bodies become repugnant to 
one another, and a mental antagonism results that is 

unbearable. 

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One of the greatest mistakes, and one of the most 
common, is "aborting," or "infanticide." There are 
many methods of accomplishing this act, but not one of 
them is safe, and not one of them that is not dangerous, 
while every method taken to prevent the growth of the 
foetus (child) is most positively injurious to the body of 
the woman. 

Can a doctor get rid of the child any more safely? 

We say that no doctor can kill the child and not in- 
jure the mother. The mother is injured physically and 
the mental injury is just as certain. Where the habit is 
continued there is certain to be an irritation at the mouth 
or neck of the uterus, and this brings a discharge which 
the doctors call "catarrh." Eventually the whole uterus 
becomes inflamed — the ovaries and fallopian tubes are 
involved, and oftentimes cancer, or what is termed 
"cauliflower excrescence," follows, which, under the doc- 
tor's treatment is always fatal. The patient may linger 
along two years, perhaps a little longer, or only a few 
months, but the end is always in sight by the end of the 
two years. 

I knew of a young wife who went into consumption 
before the third month where the child was killed by 
means of a bougie. 

Giving preparations of ergot is a favorite method, but 
I have never known of a case of abortion where the 
mother was not permanently injured by the loss of the 
child. She had better have brought the child into ex- 
istence and given it away than to have murdered it for 
some foolish idea — or some imaginary fear. 

Where the death of the foetus is accomplished and the 
wife lives she at once — unless she goes into a decline — 



86 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

fleshes up in the hips, they become broad and heavy, out 
of all proportion to the rest of the body. Many, espe- 
cially if they have taken ergot, cannot have children in 
after life when they think they are ready to care for and 
desire them. 

The very best remedy is to sleep apart until everything 
becomes right in the mind. Forcing personal contact on 
the other party is a fire that continues to burn fiercer 
the more the constraint. Very frequently any slight per- 
sonal defect, apparently proves sufficient cause for un- 
pleasantness, misunderstanding, estrangement, and 
eventually divorce; when, in reality it is all due to the 
misappropriations of the natural functions. The hus- 
band's mind dwells on this imagination and from that 
moment he thinks he has an excuse in trying to find 
some other woman that will be better to him than the 
one he is already married to. The wife in turn thinks 
she is justified in encouraging and accepting the sym- 
pathies of some other man. The person (man or wom- 
an) that has such a fool thing as this in mind is sure to 
have a miserable existence. When^ a man is married he 
has taken a wife for better or worse, and should stick 
to her as long as she is virtuous. 

Any deformity or personal peculiarity that may be 
about the wife can be overlooked whenever her good 
qualities are considered ; and, at any rate, if the man has 
been blind enough to marry her and she is willing to 
bear children, any minor fault or personal blemish can, 
and should be, overlooked. 

I knew a man — an American — who married a lovely 
lady. She brought him some property, and after mar- 
riage became deaf simply because they traveled the 



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Royal Road to Hell and from amalgum fillings in her 
teeth; she became so deaf that she had to use an ear 
tube. I have seen this man turn his nose up at her be- 
cause she was hard of hearing, and when he knew that 
she could not hear he would curse her to her face. It 
was a good day when the man died and left the woman 
alone. I have seen other men — scores of them — who 
neglected their wives within a month after they were 
married. They wandered off down street and left their 
wives to take care of themselves. Such men are brutes 
at heart. They had no love for them when they were 
married. They may not think they have done anything 
out of the ordinary, but the fact is, that every woman 
when she marries, expects to be taken care of, and in 
being taken care of, she desires above all things, affec- 
tion, love and companionship, and the husband who 
neglects his wife or suffers her to be alone, unless she is 
at work and he is unavoidably away, is the man who is 
unjust to the children that are to come after him. In 
other words, he does not do her justice if he does not 
take care or and give her the companionship, love, asso- 
ciation, the sound of his voice, and more especially, the 
training that a young wife needs when she is first mar- 
ried to bring her up and broaden her mind, both in re- 
gard to financial affairs and the ways of the world, which 
she is not supposed to be familiar with. She needs being 
established. The husband who does not do this robs his 
children of a pre-natal education which they certainly 
have a right to demand. 

There are a thousand ways in which the husband can 
benefit his wife, and if he wants to take care of her 
mentally and bodily, he must get acquainted with her 



88 HOW TO TAKE CAKE OF A WIFE 

wants and needs. He must satisfy her aspirations for a 
home and he must train her mind — if this expression is 
allowable — in the way that he thinks is best both for his 
own welfare and the welfare of his children. 

When the wife is pregnant, the husband should supply 
her with books and music. He should read to her, and 
he should make her a part and parcel of his life as much 
as is possible; he should make a confidant of his wife. 
The more he improves her and the better she becomes 
mentally and physically, the better are his children and 
the better are his chances for happiness. He should 
never be ashamed of her because her waist is not trim 
and slender while she is carrying her child. He should 
furnish her with an elegant loose wrap, and let her go 
around with him to all places of amusement as long as 
she is able to stand on her feet, and he should pay special 
attention to her means of education while she is carrying 
this child if he wants the child to have the best mentality 
when it comes into this world, if he wants the child to 
love him. 

And while the wife is pregnant, let him control him- 
self by diet and hard work. He will have more brains 
after awhile and know more than those who throw away 
the small amount of brains they have, and then sit on a 
wood-box in some store and prophesy that the country 
is going to the bow-wows because of some trust. Let 
him have a trust of his own and he may rest assured 
that what he desires will be on hand for him when the 
time comes. And the time will not be far away before 
the baby is born if he keeps himself continent. He will 
have more brains and a better body than the other chap 
who "indulges" and thus robs the child and spoils the 



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mother. Expend your surplus "energy" on raising more 
corn or in doing some extra work that will buy a new 
baby buggy and wraps for the child. 

Not so very long ago I was introduced to a gentle- 
man who was a "great reformer/' and from some cause 
— I do not remember the reason why now — I asked him 
if he ever got acquainted with his wife. How 7 surprised 
he was when I told him that one of the first things he 
ought to do was to help his own family instead of trying 
to help others. I imagined from this man's appearance 
how his home looked. 

He had tried to change this world into a socialist 
system, and while he had been preaching socialism he had 
neglected his wife, the mother of his children, and he 
had no place like home, but he had an unwilling slave 
who simply followed him from one state to another, and 
there was nothing apparently for them anywhere. 

When the oldest boy began to work he had to supply 
the wants of the mother. I do not care how much good 
that man did to other people, he never did his duty in 
that he did not take care of the wife he had sworn to love 
and support and take care of and all that; in short, he 
had been a robber to her, and had made a slave of one 
who had trusted him. He should have looked after his 
own home — loved and cherished his wife and children 
first — and preached, if he felt called, after he had done 
justice to them. 

When the wife becomes pregnant, the husband should 
not cease to love, cherish and care for her as well as for 
the child she is carrying. If he does not care for this 
increase in his family — the reproduction of himself — he 
is a traitor tQ his country and to himself. And he need 



90 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A WIFE 

not wonder when the child grows up if it hates him in- 
stinctively. 

The assassin of President Garfield was a child of a 
minister, and was conceived and born while his mother 
was incarcerated in the loft, or garret, of their home as 
insane. She was his "wife," and of course he had "the 
power/' not the right, to co-habit with her if he desired. 

He had the power and used it and Guiteau came on 
the scene. We know the rest. 

No wife should be forced to bear a child if she does 
not wish to, but if she has the child, then we assert that 
it is just as imperative on the part of the husband to care 
for and love the mother (and when he does this, he is 
caring for the child that she is carrying) as it was to 
care for her before he married her. If he does not do 
this loving and caring for her, he may be sure that he 
will not have much of any comfort from the child when 
it comes into the world. 

Again, if the wife does not wish to have a child, the 
husband who forces motherhood upon her is building a 
fire which will burn him and what he desires to have as 
a home into smoke quicker than he thinks of. Nothing 
destroys the home so quick as to force another life into 
it against the will of the one who has to care for the 
unloved and unwelcome guest for eighteen months. Do 
not forget this for a moment. Keep yourself aloof from 
all temptation and gain the love, respect, esteem and 
confidence of your wife before having another life come 
that will make you miserable as long as you live. 

If there is one thing a man ought to know more than 
another when he takes a wife, it is that every twenty- 
eight days during her child-bearing period, her body is 



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in such condition — that is, a cleansing condition in which 
the corpuscles of the body are cleansing themselves — 
that her body demands during this period of time extra 
care, comfort, protection and immunity from all smells 
and all associations or contacts that will prevent these 
corpuscles — these atoms of blood — from cleansing them- 
selves and passing off the excrementitious and worn-out 
materials that are in the body. She should have a home 
where she can take care of herself. 

We mean to say, and if it were possible we would rub 
it into a man's head clear through the skull, that during 
the time of the woman's menses she should sleep alone; 
she should not make the bread nor be exposed to the 
inclemency of the weather. 

Of course, if the wife is all right and she is well clad 
— oh ! We know what we are talking about — we mean 
to say that every woman should be well protected around 
the bowels and should have the lower extremeties well 
clad with good, warm underwear, and the best of shoes 
when she goes out anywhere during the time that she is 
unwell ; and the husband who knows enough to take care 
of his wife is the man who is going to have good re- 
turns for his investments. 

The moment the man knows about this and evinces a 
care for the persons who are really weaker than he is, 
that moment he steps on a higher plain in the scale of 
humanity. 

And the man that does not know this is the one that 
is going to pay doctor bills and find that in more than 
one way he has lost his prestige and his influence among 
those that he calls the weaker sex. 

We may as well mention while we are about it that 



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during the time the mother is nursing her baby, and we 
believe during the time she is pregnant, if she is expected 
to have a nice child, should not be forced to put her 
hands and arms into warm soapsuds where the impurities 
from soiled clothes have been soaked out. She might 
wash her own clothes and the clothes of her baby if she 
is all right, but if the husband wants to take good care 
of her he should have someone else to do the washing 
during these times. 

Above everything that can come to a wife she should 
not be forced to live in the same room or house with 
some of his relatives. Do not do it under any circum- 
stances. Have a room or a house alone where you can 
live apart from any criticisms of some one else. Mind 
this, there is more in it than you have any idea of. No 
wife can nor should be expected to stand any sneers or 
criticisms while she is carrying a baby. Everything that 
comes up and makes her unhappy is reflected in the little 
immature child she is carrying, and when that child 
comes into the world it has all this unhappiness burned 
and branded in the little brain. Then it cries. Oh, you 
may think we do not know what we are speaking of, but 
we do — we have seen it, or seen the progeny which came 
from the wife who was unhappy and sneered at while the 
babe was being carried in the womb. 

Did you ever know that the cases of hare-lip, or split- 
lip, and many of the cases of those who are without any 
palate, come to a child because the mother was unhappy 
while the baby was being carried in the uterus? We 
know it. These things are not generally known. Think 
over these conditions and learn to treat your wife with 
love and affection while she is carrying the child, and if 



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you can keep her away from the unpleasant things which 
are too apt to be said by the foolish and thoughtless — 
you will have much comfort when these children 
come to maturity. We are teaching you something of 
more value than money. These are points that the man 
should think of who has a wife to take care of and who 
expects to have her smile and her love during the time 
that he is on earth. 

It is not remedies and "cures" that the husband wants 
who is desirous of taking care of his wife — it is knowl- 
edge of how to do those things beforehand to avoid ill- 
ness and trouble that he should have. 

The doctors hate to have this knowledge in the hands 
or brains of the common people, and this is why you 
have never heard of it before. Very few know of it, and, 
therefore, it is new to you. But these are the facts and 
if you know how to take care of your wife as well as 
you should know how to take care of your cow, you will 
have a happy and healthy household and never have to 
give any of your hard earnings to the doctor or the drug 
stores. You will know absolutely more than they do. 



CHAPTER XII. 

BURNS. 

Our readers will see in the following illustration, a 
representation of what is known as the two skins, that 
is, the outside skin, which is called the EPIDERMIS, 
and the inside skin, which is called the CUTIS VERA, 
or true skin. The sweat glands are shown in black, 
while the yellow represents the sebaceous glands, which 
are oily bags containing nutriment that is especially for 
the hair — apparently — but we believe also has a mission 
in supplying the skin with an oily material or lubricant, 
making the whole connective tissue oily. It is a fact 
that those who drink hard water, coffee, tea or alcohol, 
and have their kidneys filled up with lime, and so on, 
always have a rather harsh SKIN, and those persons 
who use soft water and wash every day and who eat suf- 
ficient quantities of vegetable oils, have what is known 
as an elastic or soft and pliable skin. 

In a young girl, and it should be so in a young man, 
we see the soft, elastic skin smoothly drawn over the 
connective tissues, and it is natural for us to pat a child 
whose skin is smooth and round, or to smooth down the 
arched neck of a favorite horse. Underneath this skin 
that we pet, these glands called sebaceous are filled with 

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Capillary 



Fat Cells or^ 

Gil Globules 







Drawn especially for the "King's Command," August, 1902, to 
illustrate the article, "On Burns." 



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oily material. Now, this oily material comes from the 
blood, and, by the way, we will say that when a person 
shaves and allows this oil to escape from the sebaceous 
glands, they become wrinkled and this oil is wasted. And 
after the waste then we see the face sinking in, and the 
man has lost a portion of valuable oily material which 
should go, and does go, to supply the eye and the ear 
with the necessary lubricants, and without this oil we 
cannot retain our hearing or our eyesight to a good old 
age. And when we shave daily, we have lost this much 
of valuable material for the body. 

In the case of a burn, the portion of the body burned 
should be soaked in cold water, and the pain would leave 
in an hour or so. The doctor who rubs on vaseline or 
some lubricant to be absorbed with this dead, burned 
material, aids in sending this mass directly back to the 
heart. You will see underneath the red part is the nutri- 
ent artery. This also is accompained by a vein, and 
through this nutrient vein these materials are taken back 
in their baked and congested state to the heart and lungs, 
and, of course, fill the brain with this old material. 

One of the most common occurrences in civilized life 
is an accidental burn from fire, hot stoves, gas, or from 
anything else which may have been heated enough to 
cook the outside skin. This is called a "burn." 

When a burn is caused by heated water or a hot liquid 
of any kind, it is called a "scald." The effect is some- 
what different, in that in the case of a burn there is 
immediate hardness and baking of the tissues, and in 
the case of a scald, the tissues are soft and cooked. In 
burns, the flesh stays on the body, because it is imme- 
diately dried to a crisp, while in the case of the scald, 



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the flesh is liable to drop off and leave holes where the 
flesh was cooked, dead and soft. 

In both cases the life force is at once driven from 
the tissues, and these tissues are dead and foreign mat- 
ters to the body. The treatment may be almost alike, 
for all practical purposes, in either burns or scalds. Every 
mother and father should know how to treat either, 
whether the injury is from gas, hot liquid or fire. There 
is no time to call a doctor, and usually the doctor does 
not know what to do in ninety-nine cases out of one 
hundred. We want to deliberately repeat this, so that 
there is no possible chance of a mistake, that the doctor 
does not know what to do when he is called to treat a 
burn. He is not taught right and he never finds out 
what to do and do it at once. We go still further and 
say that the doctor, notwithstanding his education and 
training, has been taught wrongly along these lines, and 
his first idea is to "allay the pain," while, as a matter of 
fact, the first idea should be to prevent the loss of more 
tissue and the death of blood corpuscles. We should 
prevent the loss of more tissue and get rid of the burned 
and dead material. 

Unfortunately, however, the doctor has been taught 
that he is to "allay the pain" at any cost, and he does 
this with poisonous agents which kill the corpuscles and 
destroy more tissues that the burn originally destroyed. 
Of course, from the habits of the civilized world, a burn 
from cook stoves, gas, etc., can occur to any person at 
any time. More frequently, however, to a child, but if 
the mother or father, the friend or the nurse is ready at 
once to treat the child in a proper manner without the 
ideas of a doctor, there can be many precious lives saved 



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which are sacrificed under such harrassing and painful 
circumstances as make the very remembrance of them 
agonizing to the mentality of the unfortunate parent. 

We say that everyone should understand what a burn 
is. We will place the following in paragraphs so that 
everyone may understand precisely: 

i. There are four layers to the outside skin. 

2. There are two skins. The outer skin is called the 
"Epidermis," or the skin on the skin, or the outer skin, 
and the inner skin is called the true skin, or the "Cutis 
Vera." 

In all cases of skin burned or scalded, the danger is 
when the second skin, or the true skin, is burned inside 
deep enough to cook the capillaries and to congest or 
cook the capillaries inside of the true skin. The blood, 
which is inside of the capillaries, is cooked — or killed 
from heat — whether the heat is from liquid or a hot 
furnace. 

The capillaries inside of the true skin lie up in little 
cones and are connected with the nerves and with the 
venous circulation as well; the blood coming directly 
from the heart to these capillaries and returning through 
the capillaries to the veins and from there goes back into 
the heart and into the lungs, where it is oxygenated or 
aerated, and sent out through the arteries again. Thus, 
we have a continual flow of blood from the heart to the 
skin and from the skin to the heart at all times. 

Now, the result in a burn is to cook the nerves, tissues, 
and all the blood corpuscles that are with the capillaries 
in the true skin, and the next result is to have this 
burned, congested or cooked blood go back into the 



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veins, and thence be passed into the heart, and from 
there all over the body as cooked or dead blood. 

We wish our readers to comprehend the fact that it is 
not the burn that at once kills the person. Of course, 
the burn is the direct cause of the death, but the actual 
cause is not because the burn killed, but because after the 
burn, the congested, dead blood in the skin or in the 
capillaries and the burned material that is in the skin 
near by the veins, being shut up and disintegrated, 
becomes putrified, or in any case it is charred and then 
is taken up by the venous system and carried back to the 
heart. 

If the burn is above the waist line it is probably car- 
ried back directly into the heart itself. If the burn is 
below the waist line it is likely to be carried into the 
liver or, going into the venous circulation, is kept in the 
liver and there congests the liver, or rather is in a con- 
gested condition held in the liver cells to be thrown out 
afterward. 

The necessary thing to know and what the doctors do 
not know, is the fact that if the skin, this outside skin 
which is shown in Plate Xo. i in this volume, is charred 
and burned, the capillaries, the sabaceous glands, the 
epidermis and the arteries and connective tissues are all 
burned and charred. That is, that there is no longer any 
life in the burned tissues. 

Now, observe carefully that the proper thing to do at 
once, or as soon as possible, is to have these parts that 
are burned and charred dissolved and disintegrated and 
in a condition where they can be sent out through the 
skin. If this is understood, that these parts are to be 
sent out through the skin and are not going to be taken 



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Up by the venous system, but are going to be expelled, 
as it were, through the pores of the skin, and should not 
be allowed to be taken up by the venous system and car- 
ried back to the heart, we will then have a plain under- 
standing of what cold water (but not ice cold) will do 
to the outside in the case of a burn or scald. 

The water disintegrates, or dissolves, these charred 
and burned pieces, and the water also applied to the out- 
side of the skin assists in covering over, or allowing the 
blood corpuscles to sheathe over, the fine tendrils of the 
nerves and the loops of the nerves, or the ends of the 
nerves that are burned ; we say that the water allows the 
corpuscles to send out material that will sheathe over the 
ends of these nerves, and in the course of an hour the 
little one that is burned, or the large one that is burned, 
will have gotten over its pain and smarting, because the 
ends of the nerves will be covered up. 

The recent death of a noted Chicago doctor's daughter 
is an instance of a lack of common, ordinary foresight, 
which is certainly foreign, or should be foreign, to the 
parent desiring to take care of the child. We will quote 
from a current newspaper regarding an account of her 
death and show how it was that this girl died from a 
lack of what might be termed ordinary common sense. 
The following is the condensed account of her death : 

DEATH OF DR. 'S DAUGHTER. 



Her Hair Catches Fire and She Is Fatally Burned. 
"Chicago, May 15. — Esther, daughter of Dr. 



died last night of burns, having suffered for hours. 
"She was twenty-three years old and a student at the 



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University of Chicago. Yesterday morning her hair 
caught fire from a gas jet and her head and face were 
horribly burned. Nurses placed salve on the patient's 
wounds ; meanwhile, the father was hurrying to her bed- 
side. The patient was unconscious much of the time. 

"She died at 9 o'clock in great agony, having returned 
to consciousness a short time before. News of the death 
did not come out until to-day, when the coroner was 
notified. An inquest was set for 11 o'clock to-day. 

"At the inquest her father was the first witness. He 
frequently broke down under his grief. He declared that 
his daughter's night robe had been burned from her body 
and that vaseline had been applied by a licensed physi- 
cian. He further stated that, during the afternoon the 
patient's condition had become very serious and that Dr. 
C , a medical practitioner, had been called to con- 
sult with Dr. S . Dr. C , the witness said, 

held out but little hope. The jury then returned a ver- 
dict that "the death w r as due to burns accidentally re- 
ceived." 

Here we see that the girl had her night robe burned 
from her body and vaseline had been rubbed on. 

In the first place, the inside part, or rather the true 
skin, is burned and the capillaries are full of cooked 
blood. What, then, should be done in the case of every 
burn ? What should have been done, for instance in this 
case? We reply, that the very first thing to have done 
was to have prevented any more blood from dying, and 
also to prevent any of the blood from going back into the 
heart any faster than w r as absolutely necessary, or than 
nature desired to have it go back. 

How could this have been done? 



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We say that, if at the time she was burned, she had 
been placed in a bath tub of cold water the moment she 
had her night robe off, and had been kept there with the 
water on her all the time, as fast as it got warm to have 
taken out the warm water and fresh cold water put in, 
in the course of an hour and a half or two hours all the 
pain would have ceased. 

This is precisely what w r e say : That, if she had been 
kept in a bath tub of cold water for an hour and a half, 
or perhaps two hours, that by that time the vital force 
would have carried blood enough to these capillaries and 
shut them up and would have produced, or would have 
made provision to have sheathed up the ends of the 
broken nerves, the loops and little fine tendrils of nerves 
that are on these capillaries, and the water would have 
soaked up the dead and burned material so as to have 
formed a complete sheath or covering to have excluded 
the air, and the pains would have been gone. Then 
nature would have built up new capillaries, new skin 
underneath, and she would have lived. This is law. This 
is common sense. This is the exact thing which should 
have been done. And every mother and father, nurse or 
friend should know these facts, the why and wherefore. 

If a child is burned, put the hand or arm, or whatever 
part may be burned, into cold water. If burned on the 
face, or near the mouth, keep the parts wet in cold water 
by means of a cloth. 

In case the skin is burned from the outside, so that the 
outside skin is cooked, then we say lay a soft cloth over 
the burned place and do not disutrb this cloth, but keep 
it wet with the coldest of cold water and give it time to 
get settled and easy, which it will as soon as the nerves 



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have been sheathed over by the plasma from the blood 
corpuscles, and these blood corpuscles will bring it there 
every minute, and as soon as it gets easy it will com- 
mence to heal up under the influence of this water, and 
will never stop healing until every particle of the burn 
is healed up from the bottom. Mind, if the outside skin 
is burned clear through, it is not wise to disturb the 
inside cloth. 

If not burned so the skin is crisp, then we can change 
the cloth as frequently as it becomes warm, every minute 
or so, if necessary, until the pain is over from this burn 
or scald. But if the burn is on any part of the body, put 
the body into the water and keep it in this cold water 
until nature or the vital force sheathes up the nerves, 
and when these nerves are sheathed there will be no more 
pain, because when the nerves are not exposed to the 
atmosphere, or when they are sheathed from the atmos- 
phere, then the pain ceases. Cold water is the great 
remedy for burns, because it excludes the air and 
is immediately taken up by the burned blood and the 
dead skin that has been burned, putting them under the 
solvent process of water, and so the water itself is taken 
up and passed into the dry, burned, cooked, roasted 
places, where the blood has been congested or cooked, 
and all these particles are soaked up or liquified in a very 
short time, so they may be taken up, removed or thrown 
off by the vital force, for water is the natural solvent of 
the body, and when there is sufficient water in the body 
there is no trouble about the corpuscles being able to go 
right to work and sheathe over the nerves or the ends of 
the nerves, and at once commence to repair the little 
capillaries which pass the blood from the arteries back 



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into the veins. The veins themselves take up the water 
and do not allow the dead and roasted blood to pass 
directly into the heart without being liquified. 

In the case just mentioned, where death is recorded as 
having occurred the same day as the burns, we repeat 
that if she had had this cold water treatment she would 
have been alive and probably well to-day ; but, instead of 
this, they put on vaseline. No one knows what there was 
with this vaseline, but from the fact that she went to 

sleep, and from the further fact that Dr. S had 

it rubbed on and that she went to sleep afterward, there 
is no reasonable doubt in any man's mind who had seen 
the effect of morphine, that this vaseline contained 
some opiate. Besides this, as will be seen by the report, 
nurses placed salve on the patient's wounds. 

Now, this salve was a grease of some kind, nobody 
knows whether it was made out of hog's lard or lumpy- 
jawed cattle suet. As long as it was a grease and made 
into salve, nobody cared. Grease does not supply any- 
thing to the blood corpuscles, and it was a hinderance to 
the vital force in getting rid of this charred and dead 
material. It was just the wrong thing, even if it was 
nothing else except the cow grease or the petroleum, but 
the probabilities are that in that "salve" and in the "vase- 
line" there was some opiate or narcotic which killed still 
more blood corpuscles, and did not allow them to go to 
work, and she died. 

It was too bad, of course, and we are sorry. We sym- 
pathize with the parents, but, then, it would have been a 
great deal better to have taught this young lady some 
common sense and some real truth while she was attend- 
ing the University of Chicago. 



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The tendency of the age is to "trust the doctors," 
while the parent, who is more interested than any one 
else on earth, is standing by without a thought of the 
proper thing to do, because this knowledge is not at hand 
and in the brain before the accident occurs. If the 
parent would pay attention to this kind of knowledge 
before the accident comes on the family, there would 
never be the agonizing results that we are having every 
day. 

All the time that the person is in the water, or that 
the water is being applied to any cases of burn, it is of 
the utmost importance that the person has pure air to 
breathe. The room should be open, whether in cold or 
warm weather ; there should be plenty of air in the room. 
This is not only of the utmost importance to all sick 
persons, but we say without the pure air there is no 
possibility of there being any rapid recovery. Liberal 
quantities of water should be drank as well. 

We do not know how we can make this any stronger, 
but we wish it understood that those persons who do not 
have pure air when they have a burn, are the ones who 
are going to die, because the lack of pure air on the 
blood corpuscles destroys the corpuscles and prevents 
them from performing their duty in building up new 
tissues. 

Some reader may ask how we know that there was 
anything in the vaseline or the "salve" that the attend- 
ants rubbed on the burns. This would be a good ques- 
tion and we think we can answer it. 

If the vaseline had been placed on, pure and simple 
vaseline, the girl would have screamed an hour or two 
with pain and then it would have been over. But when 



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they put on their foolish compound, no matter by what- 
ever name they called it, she went to sleep, or into a 
state of "unconsciousness. " What caused this uncon- 
sciousness? We say to you that the vital force would 
never have been unconscious half a minute if there had 
not been something in that "salve" or in the "vaseline." 
This condition was not due to vaseline or simple cerate 
"salve," but it was some other ingredient, and this Dr. 

S , who is licensed to practice "medicine," placed 

this ingredient in the vaseline or it was incorporated into 
these articles beforehand, and the thing was done. She 
went into unconsciousness and never came out only long 
enough to ask her father to pray for her. 

In all hospitals they have on hand at all times a supply 
of "carron oil." This is made by shaking together equal 
parts of lime water and linseed oil. The oil is softened 
or mixed good, and this is put on all kinds of burns until 
completely covered, and then the burn is easy. It is not 
as good or as effective as cold water ; we have given both 
of them many a trial. And, while we always have car- 
ron oil on hand, we know that the cold water, and plenty 
of it, is the very best thing on earth to apply to a burn 
or a scald. 

We wish the parents who read this book would re- 
member this always. 

Place the parts under water until the burned and 
charred places are dissolved, and then we shall have a 
safe child, or a safe patient ; when, if we put on the vase- 
line with opiates or shut the pores of the skin up as is 
often recommended, with opiates, laudanum, sulphonal 
or anything else, we have these burned and charred parts 
go directly back into the system, and if an opiate is 



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given the child or burned person will lose consciousness 
and they will die. 

Put this book right aside and remember that in all 
cases of burns or scalds, no matter whether it is from 
hot grease, gas or from any hot liquid being turned over 
on the child, or from the child sitting in a tub of boiling 
water, or from any cause whatever, that the placing of 
the burned parts in cold water is the only remedy that 
has ever been discovered that is prefectly safe and sure 
to save life after an extensive burn or an extensive scald. 

If you only have this piece of knowledge for this 
entire year, it will pay you a hundred times over in case 
one of your little ones is burned. In case there is only a 
finger burned, put it in cold water ; keep it in cold water 
until all smarting has ceased. In case the face is burned, 
put cold water on it and keep it on. In case the body is 
burned, put the parts into cold water. In case the chest 
is burned, keep turning cold water on the chest or on 
the back or neck and you will have a safe outcome. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

VACCINATION. 

In what we know as the civilized world, no one act has 
done more to make people weaker and more liable to 
disease, than the foolish habit of vaccination. 

The medical profession have taken up this idea, that 
when a person has had some kind of poison placed under 
the skin and this poison has gone into the blood, that 
another poison cannot enter into the blood. Or, they 
assert, that when a person has clean lymph (but there 
never was any clean lymph — all of it is vile) placed in 
the body, that small-pox cannot be taken. This is wholly 
erroneous and has been proven so in thousands of in- 
stances. Vaccination never protects any one from the 
small-pox. Never has and never will protect any one. 
When the lymph, poison, scab or virus, or whatever may 
be the stuff which is used on the arm or limb goes into 
the system, then the blood corpuscles are poisoned and 
have all they can do to fight this poison which enters into 
the blood and makes it impure and diseased. The force 
of the body has been so impaired by the poison of vacci- 
nation that the resistive powers are not only less able 
to combat the disease we are endeavoring to escape, but 
all others as well. And this is a detriment so great that 
there is nothing which has ever made the human race so 
weak as the habit of vaccination during the last one hun- 

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dred years. Our hospitals are crowded. The diseases 
have multipled. Fatal cases of cancer and paraylsis were 
never as prevalent as at the present time. And the whole- 
sale vaccination is one of the main causes. No person 
can have a sound body where the vaccine matter has 
been placed in the body and has "taken" as they desire 
to have it taken. When we desire to cure any sick body, 
we should always ask when the patient was vaccinated, 
and go at once to work to get this poison material out of 
the body as one of the first requisites to health. The 
poison is there if the person has ever been vaccinated. 
We must remove it before the body will become entirely 
well. Every parent should think out the result and refuse 
this abominable superstition and never allow these ignor- 
ant and stupid doctors to place this lymph, scab or virus 
in any part of the body. And every parent should keep 
his children from being vaccinated. The small-pox is 
not to be dreaded a hundredth part as much as the vacci- 
nation. By sanitation and good habits we can overcome 
the small-pox. But the beastly and poison efifect of vac- 
cination is not to be taken from the body without a long 
siege. Nearly all schools of medicine have combined to 
force vaccination on the children, and in almost every 
place it becomes a requisite to attending the public school. 
We assert that this is one of the curses of the century 
and never has prevented even one case of small-pox. In 
every instance we have seen, patients who were vac- 
cinated had the disease in a more severe form than those 
who had never been vaccinated. Two years ago we 
were in a place where in and around the country we were 
called to about four hundred cases and not one of them 
died. All who had been vaccinated had the disease just 



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as bad, or worse, than those who had not received this 
poison and filthy matter into their systems. The ones 
who had never been vaccinated did better than those 
who had been. 

When a man has a wife that is sick the first thought 
should be what has caused this sickness, and if there has 
been any vaccination this is one of the causes. To get 
this poison out of the system is one of the first requi- 
sites toward having a sound body. 

We would never send our children to school a day if 
they had to be vaccinated. Poisoning a child to keep out 
another poison is like worshiping the devil. We do not 
want any of it. 

Besides destroying the body by its poisonous contact 
with the blood, this vaccination is a direct detriment to 
the mind and makes it weaker. Many of the humors 
which we have to encounter come from this curse of vac- 
cination while the children are young. 

THREE PIECES OF KNOWLEDGE. 

There are three distinct acquisitions of knowledge, 
which, if men or women have, they are prepared to start 
in life and gain a better education and have better suc- 
cess in their duties of life than with any other basis 
which they can possibly have from any source, outside 
of the bible. 

i. The husband who understands animal nature (and 
this knowledge of animal nature is, or should be depos- 
ited in the brain or intelligence), and knows how to take 
care of the wife during her periods, and then knows 
enough to allow her to sleep alone and to be absolutely 



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unmolested during the time that she is unclean, as well 
as during child-bearing, will have a sound, healthy wife 
— healthy children — and can be healthy and strong in his 
body and intelligent in mind. The husband or wife who 
does not know these facts is the one who will be the suf- 
ferer, as well as the unfortunate children who come 
later. 

2. Every person has a right, and it is the duty of every 
person to worship God. There is no warrant in the New 
Testament for any Gentile to approach God and ask for 
any material thing — unless we call wisdom a material 
thing, which we do not, nor can wisdom be called an 
entity, although spoken of as such — because everything 
in heaven and earth is given into the hands of the Son 
by the Father. The prayer that was taught to the disci- 
ples to ask God in Christ's name was never meant for 
the Gentiles, but was for the apostles alone. If it had 
been meant for the Gentiles it would have been so called. 
Christ said to all the world, "All those that are weary and 
heavy laden, come unto me" 

3. The force inside of the body, that we call the vital 
force — which is the living force — what is termed in the 
bible the "spirit," which is all one and the same thing — 
proceeds from the same source, and is the same force 
inherent in all plants and animal life. Everything with 
life, or the living force, demands nourishment, air, water 
and a period of rest to accomplish its purpose. This is 
a fact which any one can soon verify and convince them- 
selves of by a very little study. 

The habit of placing minerals, drugs and poisons into 
the body to accomplish anything beneficial is directly 
antagonistic to the truth, and to the well-being of this 



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force, or more directly antagonistic, detrimental and 
destructive to the work which the vital force builds up. 

The allopathic and homeopathic systems of medicine 
are, therefore, thoroughly at variance with the best inter- 
ests of the body. And the person who takes the treat- 
ment or entrusts himself or herself to the systems which 
give drugs, minerals and poisons, inside or outside, and 
to drive the vital force from the domain of the body, 
does an injury to the house in which they dwell. 

All systems as homeopathy, allopathy and every other 
system which does not work in harmony with the vital 
force, or is antagonistic to the law, is detrimental and 
destructive to the workmanship of the body. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

THE RECOVERY OF A SICK BODY. 

To understand how a body recovers, it is necessary to 
know that there is a force inside this body that does all 
the work throughout the whole system. In other words, 
the force dwelling in the blood corpuscles is the force 
that does everything in the body. It builds the body up 
and preserves it to the age of 120 years, provided we 
furnish proper material, nourishment and shelter for 
that body. 

There is no doubt in the mind of any civilized person 
who has given this any attention, that it takes about 
thirty years to bring a human body to maturity, and it is 
a law that a body of any animal has four times the length 
of life that it takes to bring it to maturity. 

Four times thirty is equal to one hundred and twenty, 
which should be the natural end of the span of life that 
is common to humanity, or in other words, life should 
only terminate at the age of 120 years. When the body 
dies before this time it either commits suicide or has 
been killed. We are not talking of hereditary nor fool 
habits which the parents place before the child, nor the 
multitude of mistakes which are constantly being made, 
as if hard water, soda biscuit, improper clothing, imma- 
ture children, unclean children (which we have ex- 
plained) and children of cousins and immature parents. 

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Children from the loins of a tobacco user or a whiskey 
drinker, a man who in his younger days has never known 
any law, human or divine, children born from a mother 
whose waist has been squeezed by a corset and tight 
bands around the skirts, or one who has worn high-heeled 
shoes and committed abortion, all these things can be 
remedied or in a measure outgrown, but it takes genera- 
tions of right living to accomplish it. 

In the greater majority of cases the children who come 
from such parents are handicapped at the outset, stunted 
and dwarfed before birth. But we assert that if the 
parents are healthy and observe the law (the woman not 
less than twenty-three and the man not less than thirty) 
that there is no reason why the offspring should not 
reach the age of 120, with all the natural forces of the 
body intact and the mind sound. 

In all this time the vital force alone does all the build- 
ing up, repairing of the body and all the preservation 
that is needed comes from this force which dwells inside 
the body. 

From these facts it follows that, if in any condition of 
the body w r e find out what has been wrong, whether it is 
lack of nourishment, air, water or habits, and if we can 
correct these, we can surely change the entire body, or 
rather we can have the vital force to change that body 
from a state of sickness to health. It is not medicine 
that changes it, it is the vital force. And this force does 
not demand drugs, but careful attention to diet as well 
as to all the habits of the body. Change mind and body. 
The first thing to change a diseased body is pure air. 
Every person should have pure air and they should have 
it from the time they are born until their last gasp. Close 



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rooms at night, sleeping in the bed with some one else, 
smoky stoves, burned-out air from furnaces, gas, kero- 
sene lamps, smells from sewers or from unclean out- 
houses, are all detrimental to the lungs ; and, detrimental 
to the lungs, this material is taken in by the blood cor- 
puscles and carried all over the body. 

How this is done has never been fully or precisely 
explained, but we assert that the impurities of the air are 
taken into the lungs, pass directly through the cell walls 
and through the walls of the capillaries and then into 
the corpuscles of the blood and from thence these impuri- 
ties of the air are carried all over the body. 

Perhaps no greater discovery has even been made than 
that of Dr. Jacob Redding of Carthage, Indiana, who 
discovered the source of muscular contractility. 

When we understand that the muscular striata is made 
up of cells, the outside of which has the diamond founda- 
tion, or an elongated square and in the inside of this 
elongated square dwells this vital force, then we will see 
that the material which is brought from the lungs to all 
parts of the body and to the outside of this muscular 
striata, supplies the oxygen to the vital force which 
dwells inside of these elongated and elastic formations, 
and without this pure air brought by the corpuscles we 
cannot have any healthy muscular contractility. 

The first proposition for health is to have a pure living 
circulation of air to breathe, and nothing will compen- 
sate for that. 

A room heated by a furnace or a room heated by a 
stove in a cellar where that air is heated over and over 
again for the persons breathing it, and especially chil- 



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dren, is destructive to their growth, and this applies men- 
tally as well as physically. 

The healthiest children and women are those who are 
raised as near as possible in the open air. That open air 
must be away from a frog pond, marshes, miasmatics 
and manure piles as much as may be possible. We lay it 
down as an axiom that no woman sick or weak should 
ever sleep with another body, and the nearer they have a 
room supplied with air from the outside, the nearer they 
will be toward perfect health. 

Every room should be ventilated where they live in the 
day time, if not with the stove, then with some system of 
ventilation which will take the worn-out, heavy and car- 
bonaceous air out of the room. This is our first and 
most important proposition for the health of a woman — 
for the care of your wife and children. 

Second proposition is to have the skin in perfect order. 
Every person should have a daily bath in cold water in a 
warm room. This should not be forced on a woman 
during the time she is menstruating, but at all other times 
she should have her daily cold bath. It should be done 
with the hand quickly and no person, man, woman or 
child, should ever sleep in the same garments which they 
have w r orn in the day time. Outing flannel and cotton 
are all cheap and nightgowns should be made for every 
human being to go to bed in. The habit of wearing the 
same underwear worn during the day close to the skin 
and letting it remain all through the night has caused a 
great deal of paralysis over the United States as well 
as England. Therefore, we make the second assertion 
that the skin should be kept clean and that the clothes 
should be changed when one goes to bed. The skin 



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should be washed if the labor has been such as to come 
in contact with foreign materials. 

The habit of breakfast in the morning before the 
stomach is cleansed out is wrong, and Dr. Dewey, of 
Meadville, Pa., has done the world a vast amount of 
good by his teachings along this line, for to him belongs 
the discovery, in America, at least, that breakfast is never 
needed as a matter of fact. 

The writer is now within the prescribed limit of life 
according to common acceptation, but thinks he is just a 
little over half way on life's journey, and from forty- 
eight to this date does not remember of sitting down but 
a few times to what is termed a breakfast, and he largely 
attributes his good health to the fact that he has never 
stuffed his stomach in the morning. 

Psalmist David seemed to understand this, when say- 
ing : "Woe to the princes who eat in the morning." And 
he might have added, "Woe to the stomachs of princes or 
laymen who stuff themselves in the morning. ,, 

This, then, is our third proposition toward having the 
wife well. Let her go without breakfast, as the stomach, 
already nourished from the evening meal, does not re- 
quire food any more than the person who has risen from 
a refreshing night's sleep requires rest. She will have a 
sweeter breath, a nicer complexion and her whole body 
be in better condition if she gives the vital force a chance 
to cleanse her stomach out, ready for its noon meal. 

Foods (as potatoes) which contain an excess of 
starch, all excesses of bread and pastry, and especially 
those starchy compounds of tapioca, rice, arrow root, 
macaroni, and, in fact, all preparations from grains, con- 
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which contains almost nineteen-twentieths of pure starch, 
should be prohibited during the time there is any sickness 
of the body, or when that body is out of order. Irish 
potatoes should never be eaten only as an apology for 
other foods. 

For a woman with any weakness, with any discharge, 
either catarrh or from the genitals as whites, or who has 
any smell or odor that is unpleasant from anywhere, this 
prohibition of starch is a positive necessity, and if, while 
avoiding the starch food, they will add to their diet a 
quantity of fruit containing acid, they will supply that 
body, the blood corpuscles and the vital force with the 
needed acid that will change the starch into dextrine and 
next sugar, which can be carried off or used up in the 
system. 

Soups of beef, mutton, turkey, clean game and clean 
meats can be used up to a great advantage by the vital 
force. 

The vegetables — turnips, rutabagas, cabbage, cauli- 
flower, squash, pumpkins, asparagus, greens, beans and 
many others are all useful adjuncts to a varied diet. But 
in all this eating there should be fruit which contains an 
acid and sugar, necessary to fat. Nuts containing the 
best kind of oil should be used freely. 

We think the pecan nuts contain the best kind of oil to 
lubricate the joints and to build up the brain. 

Drugs, operations or any foolishness which depends 
on the use of outside applications, electricity, etc., etc., 
which stimulate the corpuscles but never cleanse the body, 
into which category we place the x-ray treatment, mag- 
netism and many other outside stimulants are valueless, 
because they send the blood from one place to another 



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in the body. They never cleanse the body. Never cleanse 
the corpuscles. 

What will be stated will be a series of facts which any 
one can verify in a day or two, by treating themselves, 
or in trying the diet and drink habits. Facts, to show 
you how to restore the body of the wife, without going 
to the doctor. Facts, that save you money. 

Coffee, tea, chocolates, cocoa or shells should not be 
taken inside of the system for anything or any pretext. 
They are not only not beneficial, but they are actually a 
clog in the system and in many cases they are weights 
that make the person mentally unhappy and miserable. 
They thicken the corpuscles and make the brain heavy 
and stupid — or else irritated and nervous. 

While eating there should not be any drinking. Drink 
before eating; while the chewing is taking place there 
should not be any drinking, because if you take a cold 
drink you lower the temperature of the stomach and it 
is absolutely impossible for digestion to proceed until 
the temperature of the stomach, as well as its contents, 
has been raised to the normal. 

If you use a warm drink it passes quickly out of the 
stomach, taking the saliva and the other digestive fluids 
with it. You can readily see that the saliva cannot be 
replaced, and consequently leaves the other digestive 
fluids in a weakened and impoverished state, so diges- 
tion must proceed in a very crippled condition at best. 
Do not drink anything for two and a half hours after the 
meal is over. It may be hard at first, but you will soon 
become accustomed to this correct and beneficial habit. 

In every case where the wife is ailing, there should 
only be soft or distilled water used for the cooking as 



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well as the drinking. Get a distiller and get the best — if 
you can afford it — and you certainly cannot afford to 
have a cheap article — and have all the water which is 
used distilled or purely soft water. 

Wherever we find weakness, we usually find a history 
of drugging, beside the errors of living. When the 
drugging began, we find the parties were at sea, uncer- 
tain in mind, and did not know what to do. They were 
at the mercy of the medical profession who, commencing 
with drugs, soon had them fast sinking into chronic dis- 
ease and next oblivion. The unfortunate man who has a 
sick wife does not know what to do, and he trusts the 
doctor. The doctor has been educated along wrong lines 
of thought and the invalid goes from bad to worse until 
death is a welcome relief. 

None of our readers should forget for one moment that 
every dosing drug doctor is an enemy to the human race. 
All you have to do, if you could do it, would be to look 
at the manner in which this doctor keeps the unfortunate 
wretches who are under his care. His ideas and all of 
his education were wrong from the start. The doctor 
believes that drugs do something in the human body, 
which is a mistake so foolish that one only has to see 
through the scheme of the body to be convinced at once 
that no one can assist it in any way by use of poisonous 
drugs. They can never help or benefit in any way, shape 
or manner. The vital force is the force that acts, and 
aside from chemical action there is no other force. Physic 
irritates but the force acts. Nearly every drug given by 
the chemist is a poison to the body. Still the doctor 
doses down his drugs — allows the patient to stuff the 
body with food when it should have a good rest in every 



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way, and then the fight is on between the doctor with his 
drugs and the vital force, which desires to free the body 
from some obstructions. Do not forget for one moment 
that the doctor is an enemy to your body and to every 
one who may be under his charge. His education is 
wrong and the sooner you get rid of him with his calomel 
and his fetiche poisons, the sooner you get on the right 
track to live long and well. Shun the doctor. He does 
not know truth and never will know, for his first teacher 
was the devil — the arch enemy of the human race. 

When you realize that the doctor does not understand 
about the vital force — that he has been taught there is no 
vital force, that this poison-dosing gentleman believes his 
drugs have force in them to act of themselves, you will 
see why we tell you that the doctor whom you are about 
to trust, or have trusted, is always and forever an ignor- 
ant man. Have it right out of your head that your 
"doctor" can do anything for you. Make sure that the 
force which has been the master builder of the body will 
help you in recovering that sick body if you will give it 
time, proper nourishment and such care as it needs in 
its struggles to regain its health. Let it sink deep within 
your mind at once that the force acts, and that the dead 
and inorganic minerals cannot do any acting in the body. 
When the force ceases to act, the life, which is the force, 
has left the body. 

In most instances of sickly women we find a history 
of physic being given, especially if we have witnessed a 
case from the hands of an old school doctor. Calomel is 
the main remedy they are taught to give, and each new 
doctor tries his hand at the same old routine; "a 
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throughout all the length of the intestinal canal. When 
we consider that the entire length of the intestines are 
five times as long as the entire body is high, then we 
begin to understand what the physic is expected to do 
when given to "clear out the bowels." It is expected to 
irritate the entire length of the intestines. 

Physic always irritates the inside coating of the bowels 
and makes them contract strongly and send out the con- 
tents of the bowels. 

Every time there is an irritated contraction the bowels 
become smaller and there is more and more weakness in 
the intestines and more apparent (but not real) need of 
the physic. If the bowels should be constipated, the 
proper thing is to use the enemas and avoid, shun and 
have nothing to do with any kind of cathartic, which 
leaves the coatings of the intestines in a weaker condi- 
tion than they were before any was taken. Elsewhere 
we have described the reason why physic should never 
be given. 

Doctors and ignorant persons will tell you that injec- 
tions to the bowels will have to be kept up, if once they 
are commenced, but this is erroneous. The bowels, when 
once cleaned out, will remain so, and there will not be 
any reason for physics or injections being used if the 
diet is made all right and proper exercise is taken. The 
diet should be of nuts and fruits, with such vegetables 
as are not too starchy. This will be a great help to any 
one who tries this method for even a very short time. 

Beef, mutton, clean fish, wild game that is clean, are 
all right to overcome the constipated habits. White flour 
breads, potatoes (Irish potatoes are wrose — not so much 
the sweet potatoes) are makers of constipation, because 



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they clog up the bowels and do not favor the motion of 
the intestines as proper food should do. Starchy food is 
not good in any respect. Avoid it if you are constipated. 

When one commences to overcome the habit of consti- 
pation there is usually not enough patience to go at it in 
the right manner. The person thinks just a little piece of 
bread will not hurt, and as it is only a very little 
piece, there cannot be any harm in it. This is an error. 
If one desires to thoroughly overcome the habit of con- 
stipation there should not be any starch used as food, or 
not a particle more than is absolutely unavoidable. 

The sticky starch should be kept out of the bowels 
until the habit of constipation is entirely overcome. 

One of the drugs which has killed more people than 
all the wars is calomel. This wretched stuff (made from 
salt and mercury) has been given by fools of all classes 
since the year fifteen hundred, and always with the result 
of poisoning the human body. It has caused more trou- 
ble of the intestines than any other one thing on earth. 

It irritates and rots the inner coats of the intentines 
and lays the foundation for all kinds of trouble. The 
doctors who give this stuff are called "regular" doctors, 
but they are really only regular poisoners and a curse to 
any family. We tell you to keep the doctor away from 
your wife as long as you can, and as far as you can, and 
also to keep all sorts of drugs out of the system that you 
are not acquainted with. 

Calomel (which is a preparation of mercury boiled up 
with salt), as well as all forms of mercurials, are intes- 
tine rotters, and the woman or the man who takes these 
preparations into the body robs it of the life power which 
will be sorely needed at some future time. 



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Besides being directly poisonous to the intestines, this 
calomel, or any other mercurial compound, attacks the 
bony structures and is the direct cause of every case of 
hip disease and spinal curvature, no matter whether 
given to the person direct or to the parents. These 
troubles would never come about only from the use of 
mercury. It also leads up to paraylsis and cancer, as 
well as causing "falling of the womb" and the various 
conditions known as "ante-version," "re-troversion," and 
many other conditions which they delight in finding to 
the swelling of their own pocket-books and the shrinkage 
of the unfortunate husband's bank account. 

Cascarets, fig syrup, Ripan's tabules, Beacham's or 
any other kind of pills, cascara cordial and a hundred 
other things that are given to the world, all contain 
some narcotic or poison, and each and every one of 
them do a little toward paralyzing the bowels. They are 
not good, but each and every one of them and everything 
else that is called a physic, as Garfield Tea, Rocky Moun- 
tain tea (the base of which is always senna leaves), are 
all deleterious to the human body and rotting to the intes- 
tines. Every time they are taken they make the intes- 
tines smaller and the permanent contraction of these 
intestines is what causes a great mass of disease that the 
doctors divide up into hundreds of different names. 



CHAPTER XV. 

VALUABLE HOME REMEDIES. 

In this little booklet we have only time and space to go 
over a very few of the common ailments that occur in 
the family, but we present some that will be particularly 
applicable to the wife. 

Catarrh, which is very common in all places, is always 
caused by hard water and an excess of Irish potatoes, 
rice or bread. Stop these starch excesses and you can 
cure catarrh. Any bitter herb drink will help this 
catarrh, and a glass of warm lemonade at night or in the 
morning will do more toward eradicating this excess of 
starch than all the medicine and tablets that are sent from 
the market. Do not eat any breakfast. 

The whites or leucorrhea, or the discharge that often 
comes from the generative organs of the woman (and 
much of what is known as seminal weakness in the man), 
is caused by the same thing — by an excess of starch food. 
Stop these excesses of starch food and you will gain in 
intellect and have your body in better condition. 

When the writer of this article first opposed the use 
of excessive amounts of starch as food, the professor of 
hygiene in a certain medical college declared that the 
starches were all the foods that were needed. A couple 
of years ago he had some trouble in the bowels and called 
up two of the best brother professors in the college where 

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he lectured to diagnose the case. They did so. It was 
"tuberculosis of the intestines " And he died, of course, 
because none of these chaps knew how to cure a case of 
"tuberculosis. " Actually this professor of hygiene died 
because he took the food he prescribed for others. Too 
much starch. 

We repeat that very many of the diseases that come 
upon the human race are only the result of wrong foods 
and stupid habits of eating and drinking. Medical men 
who are interested in keeping the patient sick and also 
in having more patients, will say that food has nothing 
to do with disease. But if the reader desires to keep his 
wife well and remain well himself, this fact about starch 
foods should not be lost sight of for a moment. One 
cannot eat starch foods to excess and have a sound body. 

Piles are caused by broken veins or stretched out 
veins. They are often painful, but seldom or never dan- 
gerous to life. Doctors often make operations for piles 
that are entirely unnecessary if the person would change 
the food and use applications of cool or cold water, or 
use some bitter herb in injection to the bowels to clear 
them out. The extract of mullein leaves and the golden- 
seal root are almost specific for the piles; but nothing 
does any good unless the diet becomes right. 

Boil an ounce each of mullein leaves and the goldenseal 
root in a quart of soft water thirty minutes, strain and 
sweeten. Dose, half a cupful four times a day. 

It has been the habit during the past thirty years to 
advise a woman to take a warm water douche to the 
vagina and to heat the uterus up with warm water, as hot 
as she could bear. This is one of the most foolish and 
destructive habits that has been imposed on the women 



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of the last generation. It is foolish and stupid besides 
suicidal, and directly detrimental to the welfare of the 
whole body. She heats the uterus — congests the walls 
of the vagina, and renders the lower bowels in a torpid 
state, and in a measure brings on paralysis of the entire 
generative organs. It destroys the nervous system. As a 
general thing, a woman never needs an injection to the 
uterus or vagina ; that is, if she lives a virtuous life. She 
may bathe externally as much as she wishes, but douches 
either hot of cold should never be injected inside of the 
mucous membrane. The idea of cleanliness is simply an 
excuse. A woman will be clean if she will but allow 
nature to take her course without being injected with hot 
water or any kind of medicine or drug, and the only 
persons who have an excuse for doing this are the pros- 
titutes, where promiscuous intercourse is practiced. 

In the case of a prostitute, a hot water injection might 
be allowed, but the life of a prostitute only averages three 
years and a half. She is the shortest lived of all "pro- 
fessional persons." We are not writing for that class 
at this time. 

Prolapsis : Which means that the uterus falls because 
it is too heavy, usually is brought about by constipation 
or constipated habits. The constipation, as we assert, is 
brought about by improper food and improper habits. 
Daily injections of warm water to the bowels and a fruit 
and nut diet with correct habits and proper exercise will 
overcome any case of constipation on earth. It requires 
time and a little patience. Falling of the womb can be 
treated successfully by giving a stimulant inside and 
keeping the bowels free. Let the wife have rest and 
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There is no necessity for the examination by the doctors 
and less necessity for the operation which is so often 
resorted to for shortenening the ligaments which hold up 
the uterus. The uterus will stay in its place if it is not 
too heavy. The reason it becomes heavy is because when 
the bowels are constipated the watery portions of the 
material which should pass off through the bowels are 
absorbed and passed into the uterus through the walls 
of the intestines, and thus the heavy uterus falls. Some- 
times the mouth of it may come into the world, but in 
these cases there is nearly always a history of an abor- 
tion previously or some conditions of uncleanness which 
we have explained in the foregoing chapters. These con- 
ditions of uncleanness are what commonly cause so 
many diseases of the generative organs of the women. 

Imperfect sexual intercourse and the methods of pre- 
venting the bearing of children are the most frequent 
causes of these diseased uterine conditions, and the wife 
would be far safer and better to bear children than to 
prevent them. There is only one way of prevention of 
children and that is total abstinence from co-habitation. 

We might also assert that the habit of producing abor- 
tion after the conception of the child is another certain 
method of having some sort of diseased condition of the 
generative organs. Ergot is the common remedy given 
by all classes, and although this "remedy" for prevention 
is advertised as "pennyroyal pills," etc., etc., yet the ergot 
is the drug usually given, or extract of cotton root. 
Either of these articles will cause a diseased condition 
of the generative organs, and in nearly all cases that 
have passed under our observation we have found the 
mind diseased as well as the body from the effect of 



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these drugs — ergot and cotton root. We tell you to shun 
them. When you are lying on the agonizing death bed 
you will wish that you had brought forth the child and 
had it nestling in your arms rather than suffer as you 
will do from the effect of these poisonous drugs. 

There seems to be a perfect mania in some parts of the 
nation about child-bearing. Any one would suppose 
there was a crime attached to bringing a child into the 
world from the amount of reproach they heap upon the 
wife who is pregnant. There should be no stigma upon 
the woman who bears children (if she has a father to 
the child), but she should have credit and she should feel 
a sense of satisfaction that the Lord has seen fit to make 
her a mother. Every child in the house, if there is any 
sort of a man at the head of the house, will bring a bless- 
ing with it. Not a cent of expense is attached to any 
child if the laws are kept. 

If there is a God (and we think there is, and that this 
God, Jehovah, has a beloved Son in whom He is well 
pleased) He must look down with compassion and pleas- 
ure when a child is about to be born. A child is a bless- 
ing, and it is far safer to have the child than to prevent 
it or to attempt to kill it after conception. 

Loss of memory and roaring in the ears is often 
caused by amalgam fillings or a red rubber plate. Look 
into the condition of your mouth and see what is wrong 
with the teeth. Remove those red rubber plates and 
amalgam fillings and have your mouth in good condition 
and the roaring in your head, your dizziness and your 
bad taste in the mouth will cease. It may be slow at first 
but it is sure. Go ahead and have patience. 

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tea (one-half ounce to a pint of boiling water). Drink a 
half cupful before eating. 

For an itching at the nose, drink sassafras tea three 
times a day. 

For a weakness of the back, make a tea of peppermint 
and drink it until the urine is cleared up. Use injections 
of catnip infusion to the bowels and fast all of two days 
every week. 

For pains in the bowels and in the ovaries, make a tea 
of smartweed, an ounce to a pint of boiling water. Drink 
freely and use injections sufficient to cleanse the colon. 

For pimples on the face, stop eating the breakfast, 
drop the coffee, hog, potato and all the products from the 
swine. 

For periodical headache, take the corrective powder, 
which is composed of equal parts of slippery elm, wild 
yam, poplar bark, goldenseal and cayenne. Take as much 
as will lie on half a pen knife mixed up in water after 
each meal. 

This remedy (corrective powder) is also good for pain- 
ful menstruation and for worms. It corrects many con- 
ditions of the intestines. 

For weakness of the bladder, make a tea of equal parts 
of checkerberry herb, peppermint, sassafras and unicorn 
root powdered, add half a part of ginger and to every 
half pound of the mixture add a drachm of good cayenne 
pepper ; mix this, take a quarter of a teaspoonful placed 
in a cup, turn full of boiling water, steep a few minutes, 
add sugar enough to make it palatable, strain and drink 
moderately warm. Take this any time. This tea is a 
cleaner to the bowels. It clears out the kidneys and will 
clear out the uterus, and if there is an injection used to 



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the bowels, of catnip infusion or raspberry infusion once 
a day until the bowels are right themselves, the woman 
who is an invalid will gain more real benefit from this 
treatment than from all the patent medicine in America 
and a year of doctor's visits. The diet should be looked 
after, no starch or unclean food. No food unless hungry. 

If the woman is weak and sallow; if she is thin and 
emaciated, or if she is bloated over the liver and has 
yellow eye-balls, let her put a wet towel — cold — over the 
region of the liver and pin one or two dry ones over that, 
snug, when she goes to bed. If it is cold weather, pin a 
blanket over all these towels close up under her arms, 
so as to be sure that none of the cold water will wet her 
night-robe. Let her wear this pack all night, or until she 
sweats good, and in the morning early wash off with 
cold water. A woman can do this every other night, 
except during the time she is unwell. There should not 
be any packing during the sick time. Every woman 
should sleep alone. 

For a weak back, let the woman take the heels from 
her shoes and wear spring-heeled shoes or no heels. I 
consider heels, and especially high heels, very injurious. 

No person can have a sound back that has that back 
strained by a pair of high-heeled shoes or boots. A daily 
walk should be commenced, kept up and increased until 
a person can walk from three to ten miles a day without 
fatigue. There is no exercise as good as walking, and 
house work does not meet all the requirements as does 
straight-ahead walking. A person should walk not less 
than a mile or two and back every day, rain or shine. 
Backache often comes from constipation. Have the 
bowels well cleaned out once a day. 



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For diabetes or excessive flow of urine, there should 
be a bitter tonic. One of the best is to take gentian 
extract rolled in pure powdered cayenne. Take one or 
two after eating. When the urine is free at night 
increase to five at bedtime, with a diet of fruits and nuts ; 
they will cleanse the bowels and kidneys. Stop all starch 
food and sleep head to the north. 

For numbness in the hands nothing is like a whole 
treatment. An emetic and bath and bitter tonic. These 
are all simple and they may be given to the great and 
immediate benefit by every husband in the treatment of 
his wife. They are simple remedies and within the reach 
of all. 

The man who lives in the country can gather his cat- 
nip, spearmint, raspberry leaves, smartweed, cherry bark 
and poplar bark during the summer time and have them 
dry. 

Pennyroyal herb is a good thing for painful menstru- 
ation. 

Smartweed is good for all kinds of colic. 

Cherry bark in cider is good for dropsy. 

Partridge vine, that grows so common in the northern 
states, is one of the best things on earth to help a woman 
have her child without pain and without flooding or 
danger. It should be made in the same manner that tea 
is made; a fourth or a half a teaspoonful to a cup of 
water boiling and steeped. Drink three or four cupfuls 
a day. 

Dyspepsia can be cured by means of simple remedies. 

Spice bitters, which costs fifteen cents an ounce, and 
which will cost at the rate of about two cents a day, is 
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has ever been put up before or since the days of the first 
botanic reformer, Dr. Samuel Thomson. 

Peppermint tea drank warm before eating and a due 
regard for diet, omitting the starch potatoes and coffee, 
will be found to have more effect as a specific for dys- 
pepsia and a cleaner to the intestines and bowels than 
any drug or pepsin made from a hog's stomach. Equal 
parts of peppermint herb and spice bitters is a specific 
remedy for dyspepsia. 

Do not allow your invalid wife or child to have any 
carpet whatever on the floor of the room where they 
sleep. Have a bare floor and have it painted, oiled or 
varnished. Rugs that can be shaken every day are all 
right. Keep all the fluffy curtains from the room where 
they sleep and be sure to have plenty of fresh air. Do 
not be afraid of night air — it is the only air that can be 
procured during the night, and you will find that if the 
invalid has plenty of air, every morning will witness a 
decided change for the better. Be sure that the sleeping 
room is ventilated from the bottom of the room. Do not 
think of stuffing the sick with food that cannot be di- 
gested. Stop all kinds of food until there is a good, 
healthy hunger from the bottom part of the stomach. 
And we say to you, either get wholly rid of the doctor 
or else keep what knowledge you have away from him. 

When you have taken it into your head to cure the 
sick and diseased wife or daughter, keep your knowledge 
to your own self. Do not discuss all you know with the 
ignorant who are unable to understand anything you are 
talking about. Keep your own counsel and do what 
common sense tells you to be right. All the doctors have 
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and unless you think for your own self, you may be sure 
that you will have the bills to pay while your doctor 
guesses day after day what might be good (might, could, 
would or should be good). With him everything is 
guesswork, because he does not know anything of this 
law of the vital force. So when we tell you to distrust 
everything the doctor tells you to do, you will see that 
we are not far out of the way. Have some thought for 
your own self and do the best you can without having 
another to dose out drugs of all kinds that will ruin her 
body. These are thoughts which will bear your pro- 
found consideration. If you go along day after day 
until the doctor is at sea, he will finally tell you there 
must be some kind of an "operation," to do some cutting ; 
and then, because he does not see how he can do you for 
any more money in the drugging line, he will introduce 
some specialist who will finish the work. 

Ovarian or uterine tumors can be sent out of the body 
or away from the body in the same manner and by the 
same methods that brought them there. They were 
brought there because there was some excess in the body 
and the vital force carried this stuff to some part of the 
body — uterus, ovary, breast or some other part where 
there was some unused space, and from where nature 
thought it could be removed easiest, and there you find 
the bunch, tumor or cancer. If you desire to have it 
away, think of what has caused it and what organs have 
been obstructed and try to cleanse these organs from the 
old and worn-out mass of atoms. Do not allow your 
mind to take in the absurd ideas that germs cause these 
"growths." They are really accumulations of old matter 
and the vital force can be made or caused to take them 



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away in the same manner if you will rid the body of this 
excess of materials. 

We consider fasting or going without food for some 
little time, to be one of the best remedies for this con- 
dition of excess. Fasting gives the body a chance to 
cleanse itself of these old atoms, and the body will re- 
cover sooner by fasting than in any other way. Taking 
drugs for these conditions is absolutely stupid. 

All cancers are tumors which have been putrefied. A 
cancer is only a putrefied tumor. You can cure all these 
conditions if you will look after the diet and being sure 
to have soft or distilled water for the patient to drink 
and to bathe in. This is a certainty. Do not have any 
doctor fool you with the idea that cancer can be cured 
by having it cut out. The doctors have been taught 
that these "growths" are from germs. Question your 
medical man and you will find he really knows nothing 
about what cancer or tumor is. Ask him why they come. 
If he tells you they come from germs, ask him w 7 hy it is 
that they are so prevalent w r here the persons use hard 
water and have an excess of starchy food. See him 
wince. Your doctor know r s actually nothing of the causes 
of these conditions. All kinds of uncleanness causes 
these materials to stay in the body, and when they come 
to the surface the doctor does not tell you why they 
came nor any reason why they should go away. He 
knows nothing. You can cure them w r ith fasting and 
soft water. Think over these conditions and keep your- 
self free from tumors and cancers by using soft water 
and proper foods. Keep your wife right by having these 
proper conditions of life around her. 

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gcons'' who arc "up-to-date/' No, they arc not. Mod- 
ern surgery docs not know any more about the cause of 
these conditions than a Hottentot knows about the man 
in the moon. 

Look at what the "modern surgeons" do for what they 
call "floating kidney." Cut down on the kidney and 
stitch it or wire it to some other place, and then assert 
that they have "anchored the kidney." What a lie. In 
some cases they simply cut down and look at the kidney 
and cover it with gauze and place it back again. And this 
these "modern surgeons" call "surgery." All these con- 
ditions (where the kidney may be movable from shrink- 
age or from having the fats dissolved around the kidney) 
are easily cured by rest, proper diet and the non- 
poisonous herbs of the field. No drugs needed and never 
any cutting. The cutting is for the purpose of allowing 
the "modern surgeon" to make a bill. Do not allow your 
dearest treasure to be cut open to furnish profit to the 
doctors. 

We repeat that which we said at the beginning of the 
article, if you desire to have your wife become well in 
body and sound in mind, find out what are the obstruc- 
tions and remove those obstructions from the body. 
Think of the lovely treasure entrusted to you and take 
the best care of the body that holds the mind that loves 
you. 

You will take better care of this treasure than the doc- 
tor will if you will only stop and think a little. And at 
much less expense. You will absolutey know more than 
the doctor can know if you will take time to think over 
the case and find out what is wrong. 

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sooth her mind than to allow the doctor to dose her with 
drugs, which poison her body and stupefy her brain. 
We are pleading with you. Take these for your thoughts 
and do well for yourself and for the wife of your bosom. 
Do not allow the modern butcher to catch you for a 
dollar nor for a life. Do to others as you would be done 
by and keep your treasure safe and sound. You can do 
it if you will stop and think of the conditions of life, and 
if you once have these laws in your head, you will know 
more than any doctor ever graduated out of the fetiche 
medical college. Why should not you and the wife of 
your bosom live to be one hundred and twenty years and 
be sound and well. You should make this a part of your 
study and not allow the physician or surgeon to tam- 
per with your treasure. Keep the law and the law will 
keep you. 

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